by Molly Gordon | Sep 28, 2017 | Flow, Happiness, Meaning, Resilience, Thought, Video, Wisdom
“Things happen for a reason.” You’ve heard it. I’ve heard it. Maybe you’ve said it; I certainly have. And today I realized that it’s not all that helpful. Maybe things happen for a reason; maybe they don’t. As my mentor George...
by Molly Gordon | Jan 13, 2017 | Choice, Goal Setting, Meaning, Small business, Video, Vision, Wisdom
Now and throughout the year, as you consider the impact you are having and want to have in the world, consider not just the apparent importance of your role (the size of your game) but look also at the quality of your yes. We can never know when the most important...
by Molly Gordon | Apr 5, 2016 | Ambition, Authenticity, Choice, Community, Confidence, Consciousness, Flow, Freedom, Happiness, Life purpose, Meaning, Mind, Mindfulness, Productivity, Responsibility, Self care, Self-employment, Small business, Success, Uncategorized, Vision, Wellbeing, Wisdom
The problem of weaponized insight A participant in the Come Alive and Do the Thing! Mastermind has a brilliant term for the use of a supposedly wise observation to critique or diminish another person: weaponized insight. Don’t you love it? At first it was...
by Molly Gordon | Feb 2, 2016 | Ambition, Authenticity, Choice, Coaching, Community, Confidence, Consciousness, Emotional intelligence, Happiness, Life purpose, Lovingkindness, Meaning, Mindfulness, Personal, Productivity, Resources, Self care, Self-employment, Service, Serving others, Small business, Spirit, Success, Time, Uncategorized, Wellbeing, Wisdom
When Reality Hits, It Isn’t “Reality” A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away I was a heavy smoker. Heavy as in two packs a day. One day I decided to quit. It was the last day of a hunting trip in eastern Washington. (Yes, in that other galaxy in...
by Molly Gordon | Jan 15, 2016 | Ambition, Confidence, Creativity, Freedom, Goal Setting, Happiness, Life purpose, Video
In an interview with the BBC in 1999, David Bowie said, “I have no knowledge of who I am, but I am extremely happy.” Yet clearly he was a great creator. Somehow he disentangled stories about self and purpose and creating in a way that allowed him to be...
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