It’s a pretty common refrain to speak of taking a step back to make two steps forward. It’s not a bad thought – every now and again we probably need to take stock, reset where we are on something in our lives and then let that step back lead to even better progress than when we started. [...]
Posts Tagged crazy
Many Steps Back
Apr 1
Push It Too Far
Dec 30
For as long as I can remember, my Mom has always scolded me a bit about how I take things too far. I am known as the most emotional one of the three boys in my family and I think that’s a pretty fair assessment. I can be all or nothing, no doubt about it. [...]
Walking away from it all
Jan 3
Could you do it? Up and walk away from everything in your life that your family and friends may associate with who you are? Your job, money, status and prestige? What would it take? This is what Jonathan Fields, author of the book Career Renegade: How to Make a Great Living Doing What You Love went [...]
The value of crazy
Jan 1
I firmly believe in the value and power of crazy. Maybe not so much in the wearing hair shirts in public while declaring Fred Savage to be the antichrist kind of bat guano crazy… but more the kind of crazy that causes people to stop and stare a little bit while walking away shaking their heads. The value really lies in the idea of doing something others either do not want to do or will not do because it looks hard or might be a little embarrassing.
