Tool # 9: The Alarm Clock of Guilt: Let it Wake You Up (so you can turn it off)
Swap out guilt with action and a lot of gratitude.
Tool #1: The Cradle of Compassion
Compassion, like a Cradle is portable, always warm, and fits right around us when we are feeling frail, weak, and small.
Tool # 2: The Pipe Cleaner of Creativity
Creating can be a lot cheaper than consuming. And always more fulfilling.
Tool # 3: The Bird Feeder of Grace
“You often say, ‘I would give, but only to the deserving.’ The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.” — Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, p. 34 Grace. Human, kind. There’s a funny...
Tool #4: The License Plate of Responsibility, pt. 1
What is a license plate but a tool for telling the world “Here I am. I’m covered. I’ll do my best, and if something goes south, I’m accountable”. This relates to our emotional, spiritual, and psychological worlds, too: We all carry...