Brad Stulberg writes for Outside Online, “We’ve Reached Peak Wellness. Most of It Is Nonsense.” It is a very good add for our Sunday Mālama, and a timely follow-up to this: Skills for a Lifetime of Work. Excerpt; “Across the country, everyone is looking for a cure for what ails them, which has led to […]
Sunday Mālama: Nānā i ke kumu Layers
Sense of Place and Time: It’s the last Sunday of April 2019, the 2nd month of a value immersion we devoted to Nānā i ke kumu. This is a Sunday Mālama edit of the wrap-up I offered in our Ho‘ohana Community newsletter; Nānā i ke kumu Layers Let’s start by revisiting our basic refresher on […]
Rapid Fire Learning: 65, I know
Preface: One of the ‘elders’ in our Ho‘ohana Community is an ‘Ike loa learning habit, a month-end practice we named Rapid Fire Learning (RFL). It starts as a private journaling practice, handwritten for self-reflection and can be much shorter, or longer, than what follows: I’ve opted to post an excerpt of my own RFL this […]
Mana‘o pu‘u wai: What the Heart Wants
Preface: This is an excerpt from today’s newsletter for Valentine’s Day. Let’s Talk Story—subscribe! Aloha mai kākou, and Happy Valentines Day! Let’s talk story about the heart in this month’s immersion, our Mahalo “Way of Living.” “And love is also watching, waving, wondering if love remembers you, and knowing in a happy instant, that love […]
Sunday Mālama: Are your projects and your ideas in sync?
Sense of Place: It’s January, the month of resolutions, goal-setting, and life’s way finding. In a recent newsletter, I shared this with the Ho‘ohana Community; Two Choices: The Change I Choose. If there’s anything I’ve learned from my own experiences with making New Year’s resolutions, it’s this: a) Make as few of them as possible, […]
Alonui
“Wherever you are, make sure you’re there.” — Dan Sullivan What are the good habits which empower you, and make you feel stronger? One of my Hō‘imi reflections was this: After a ten-year investment ‘dabbling’ in social media, I realized it didn’t qualify for me as a ‘good habit.’ Not Flickr or Instagram, not Twitter […]
Looking back to Hō‘imi Forward
A year-end Exercise in Positive Expectancy Hō‘imi is another Hawaiian value, one that blends parts of Managing with Aloha’s ‘Imi ola (create your best possible life) and Ka lā hiki ola (hope, promise, and optimism), with generous helpings of Nānā i ke kumu (look to your source, particularly with Sense of Place). Hō‘imi is a […]