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This seems like an odd quote for the day after Labor Day, but it’s one I’ve always believed in. Work can either be a job, a career, or a calling. If we’re diligent and fortunate, it can feel as if you’ve been called by the heavens to answer your vocation. I’ve had three callings in ...
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One of our MEA alums (and the former CMO of Airbnb), Jonathan Mildenhall sent me this Upworthy article about advice that older people might give to younger people, which reminds
There are many reasons why I love living primarily in Mexico. It’s rare to see outrage, especially in our mellow fishing and farming community. And, when we see it, it’s
In many ways, Brooks proposed that our midlife crisis is when we realize that the first mountain wasn’t as meaningful as we’d hoped. That’s when the second mountain comes into
Social science researchers bear this out. When individuals are asked later in life, “When you look back on your life experiences and consider the things you regret, which do you
On September 8, 1994, Chicago Bulls basketball player Bill Wennington was booked on a flight which he missed — USAir flight 427 – which crashed on landing in Pittsburgh, killing
The secret sauce to a great life is not about happiness. It’s about Santosha, an ancient Sanskrit word that means utter contentment. When you find, and ultimately live, Santosha, you
Are you working with people who could be the age of your children? Is your gut instinct growing as quickly as your gut size? Do you slip into “organ recitals”
The word carries a poetic sense of in-the-moment joy. A flâneur is the ultimate urban awe walker, meandering wherever their senses lead them. Baudelaire described this metropolitan character as a
This past week when our MEA Baja campus was full of wellness vacationers (as part of our new “re*fresh” program that replaces our Sabbatical Sessions), Ron Nakamoto joined us for
MEA alum and well-known Christian mystic Richard Rohr suggests that what’s really going on is a “dark night of the ego.” He continues, “Most religions teach in some way that
Robert Walter Weir was one of the most popular instructors at West Point in the mid-1800s. Which is odd at a military academy, because he taught painting and drawing. Weir’s
Wisdom resided in people, mostly male (and mostly inaccessible), who had a depth of perception, a knowledge about, as someone described it, “the nature of Self, our place in the
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