Sometimes we can make choices that take us off course, even when we think we’re headed in the direction of True North. I think perhaps some of my choices over the past 15 months probably led me down some side paths that while more northwest or northeast, rather than True North. I’m not second-guessing my […]
The Happy Life Journey: The Revelation
A few days shy of exactly 3 years ago, I woke early, made coffee, opened a text app on my computer and started to write. It was as if the message had come to me in my sleep. I started typing. “It starts with love.” I envisioned 95 theses: The Happy Life Manifesto. If Martin Luther […]
Retracing the Path of the Discover Grow Shinecast
In the intro to episode 007 of the Discover Grow Shinecast, I took a few minutes to retrace the path of the podcast in an effort to explain the path I was trying to follow. When the concept for the Shinecast began to emerge from an exploration of what I call the happy life path, […]
Weeds of Life
I spent about half a Saturday a couple of weeks ago, pulling weeds and Bermuda grass from what was once a flower bed and garden area in my back yard. It was a job that I’d been putting off for far too long, while I worked on various pieces of the Shinecast business model—peripheral pieces, […]
Light Through the Cracks
How often do we fight to avoid being broken? The subtitle of this post might be accepting, learning and growing through failure. Another sub-title might be: Getting lost on your journey. The best sub-title might be: Surrender For the past six months I’ve worked hard—very hard—on several projects that I thought were going to be […]