Simon Says Consulting
When the Battery Runs Dry I once sat with an executive who had just completed a 14-hour day, preparing to do the same tomorrow, and the day after that. She looked at me with exhausted eyes and said, “I feel like I’m running on fumes, but I can’t figure out where the leak is.” This … The Ecology of Energy: Learning to Balance in a World that Forgot How to Rest
Briefly, this reflection is about a question – How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you? And, to elaborate… Lately, I’ve been haunted by a question. Not in a spooky, ghost-under-the-bed kind of way, but more like the quiet murmur of something ancient and wise that … In Search of the Unknown
I have often wished that transitions came with a map. A well-marked trail, a clear set of instructions, perhaps a kindly guide with a lantern who knows the way and will guide me with ease and confidence from here to there. Instead, they arrive like unexpected houseguests—disruptive, inconvenient, and completely uninterested in whether I feel … The Messy Art of Navigating Transitions: Learning to Trust the In-Between
Today’s Reflection is about a seemingly easy and natural-to-us all act. Or maybe not that easy. I recently made an important, and perhaps life-changing, discovery. My ears are not the same, in their shape. Yes. Who knew. I realized it because one of the two earphones, the left one, of my newly-acquired iPhone, keeps falling … The Power of Deep and Active Listening