I've been working with clients teaching them and their families unique ways to make the most of this crisis. Some Zoom sessions with 80+ families. The ideas, care, connection and insights are inspiring. I'll share more from these sessions in the coming…lnkd.in/e5tuK-H

“The hallmark of a decision in line with one’s inner development is a feeling of having laid down a burden and picked up a more natural responsibility.” -- Anne Truitt, Daybook: The Journal of an Artist Gretchen Rubin

Johnson and Johnson is leading the way on multiple fronts - finding a vaccine, supporting front line workers, discovering new therapies, etc. Thankful to J&J for their commitment and work. lnkd.in/eAW_Y3G

Wise is one with few desires.

If you have a choice between consistency and intensity pick the former. It’s easier to start, likely last’s longer, and generally provides more significant results. Greg Zlevor #leadership #wisdom

“Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.” -- Margaret Mead, Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years Gretchen Rubin

“Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you." Ovid

“When we agree to (or get tricked into) being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved. When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us.” ~ANNE LAMOTT

I’m a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything —Arthur Clarke

I said that an expert was a fella who was afraid to learn anything new because then he wouldn't be an expert anymore. —Harry Truman

“From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.” -- Henry Matisse with Pierre Courthion, Chatting with Matisse: The Lost 1941 Interview Gretchen Rubin

The quieter you become the more you can hear. Ram Das

Even when we’re most sure that love can’t conquer all, it does anyway. It goes down into the rat hole with us, in the guise of our friends, and there it swells and comforts. It gives us second winds, third winds, hundredth winds.

“What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.” -- C. S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew Gretchen Rubin

“Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.” -- Robert Louis Stevenson, An Inland Voyage Gretchen Rubin

"Your compassion and loving kindness are invincible and without limit." - Thich Nhat Hanh

“The journey to greatness begins the moment our preferences for comfort and certainty are overruled by a purpose that requires challenge and contribution.” #brendonburchard

“Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.” -- La Rochefoucauld, Collected Maxims and Other Reflections Westwood Intl Gretchen Rubin Presidential Leadership Scholars

“Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those who you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one: People learn as they teach.” - Seneca

Radical listening is a powerful skill. lnkd.in/dCZB5Pf