Perspective

22 June 2011

I love William Blake’s poetry. This is one of my favorites:

How are you seeing your world these days? I love to play with what it feels like to simply shift my perspective. The imagination is a powerful tool. I like to deploy it expand my joy!

Happy Summer Solstice!

— Margaret Hartwell

What Can We Learn from Procrastination?

10 February 2011

Jeanne found this wonderful article from the New Yorker. She has an ongoing curiousity with procrastination….it left us wondering if and how self-esteem issues, in varying degrees of course, might show up in procrastination?

Any thoughts?

Oh, btw, the article is probably a 20-minute read so grab yourself a cuppa and enjoy.

— Margaret Hartwell

The Power of Vulnerability

8 February 2011

Brene Brown, qualitative researcher and storyteller, shares the results of her research into vulnerability in this June 2010 TEDX talk in Houston. I found it to be incredibly powerful, light, simple, clear, impactful and profound. I was reminded of the intense fulfillment found in allowing ourselves to be seen.

There are so many memorable and useful takeaways for any of us searching to play a positive role in society, live a more authentic and fulfilling existence, and shift our paradigm.

What part will you choose to learn from, work with?

— Margaret Hartwell

Limerick-In search of the "true" self

7 September 2010

“Four I’s: first there’s unconscious being,
Then there’s me with my stories agreeing,
then I’m catching me at it
which reduces dogmatics,
next, a bigger schematic that’s freeing.” – Jeremy Sherman

for the quick and fulfilling 2 page article see Psychology Today Ambigamy Insights for the Deeply Romantic and Deeply Skeptical

— Margaret Hartwell

"Synantonyms"

30 August 2010

Had the recent good fortune in my grad school course on Strategic Management to hear Jeremy Sherman. He introduced his concept on his coined word, “synantonyms”- moral principles that descriptively are synonyms; but prescriptively are antonyms. He elaborates on this in a blog post here. Consider the relationship between these terms:

“Judgmental (bad) and discernment (good)
Spineless (bad) vs. flexible (good)
Pigheaded (bad) vs steadfast (good)
Co-dependent (bad) vs. supportive (good)
Addicted (bad) vs. dedicated (good)
In denial (bad) vs. Hopeful (good)
Pessimistic (bad) vs. optimistic (good)
Unrealistic (bad) vs. Ambitious (good)
Greedy (bad) vs. Saving for a rainy day (good)
Uncaring (bad) vs. Focusing elsewhere (good)”

Jeremy asserts, “We turn, “I don’t like it” into “It’s morally wrong.” We turn “I want it” into “Morality demands that I should have it.”

So much more to dig into here, but in general it leaves me questioning myself, “What moral justifications might I be making with my language? And does that serve me, others, or the world?”

— Margaret Hartwell

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