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Climate Decision Time – Miracle on the Horizon. Please Help.

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A recent UN reportsays that we must immediately commit to reducing greenhouse admissions since we’re rapidly reaching the point of no return. Given that emissions were once again on the rise this past year, I’m concerned that we will have to do a 180 and that we lack the political and social will to make the necessary changes in the time frame required. The…

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Why Are We Here? Our Individual and Collective Purpose

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Ever since I realized that the goals that came from my brain did not bring happiness when achieved, I have been focusing on life’s meaning and purpose. So when Chris passed away and Spirit invited me to start the Foundation, with its audacious goal of helping others (on a global scale) to create positive and rewarding relationships with themselves, each…

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Guidance Versus Intuition, and Love

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How do you make decisions? Are you analytical or intuitive, or some combination?

In the past I would usually relied on intellect and analysis to make decisions, using my brain to guide me. The trouble with using my brain as the primary tool for decision-making is that the brain is driven by fear, and my decisions would therefore be fear-based. Perfection and…

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Guidance from Spirit – Maybe It Does Make Sense

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Receiving guidance as a former atheist often feels crazy-making. I started this spiritual quest as kind of an exploratory whim when Christopher was ill, and it’s turned into something quite serious in my life. I’m grateful to know that I’m not the only one out there; in my last blog I cited data from the Pew Center for Researchwhich revealed that one-third…

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Guidance from Spirit – It’s Weird, Right?

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Complexity, by definition, is difficult to comprehend, so our minds often prefer to view life from a simper either/or or black/white perspective. I’m right, you’re wrong. This is good, that is bad. Rarely is life so cut and dry; in most cases life happens on a spectrum from black to white, good to bad, with all shades of grey in between.

Religion and…

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Our Authentic Purpose and Spirit’s Hope for Us

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What’s the purpose of life? Why are we here?

Timeless, age-old questions.

Some of us seem lucky enough to be born with the answers to these questions, or have discovered them early in life. Those of you who followed the earlier version of the Silver Linings Blog know that these were a prominent theme for me. The interest in the meaning of life and work began…

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#callings #meaning #purpose #spirit

Messages from Spirit

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Even if you don’t believe in Spirit (also called God by many), you may have an unconscious connection as I did for decades. For example, I feel I’ve always been connected to something bigger than myself, even while I was a devout atheist. Experiencing the wonders of nature or the love of a child are transcendent experiences and have been available to me…

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Connecting to Spirit

My depth of my spiritual journey has been a surprise to me and likely others given my lifelong atheistic leaning. Raised by Chinese immigrants, religion or faith was never discussed; we prayed at the altar of academic achievement. Later in life my parents subscribed to the Buddhist philosophy, one which I might choose for myself if I ever felt I needed an organizing principle.

It’s hard to be…

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What is Spirit? (According to Susanna)

Spirit is different from religion in the sense that religion tends to have a governing organization subdivided into smaller units such as churches, temples, or synagogues, a philosophical structure, and specific practices. My knowledge about religion is pretty much zero though I’m a cultural Christian given I was born and raised in a country with Christian values. Thus, my perspective is…

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Connectedness Strength Reconsidered

Five years ago, shortly after I became certified as a Gallup StrengthsFinders coach, I wrote a blog about the strength called connectedness, i.e., the ability to sense and notice how all things and events are related. I reflected on how I was surprised that this was a “thing” that people felt was a strength that they used for success personally and professionally.

At the time a former hard-core…

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Silver Linings Blog Relaunch

It has been almost 3 years since my last Silver Linings post, which ended a 4 year run that included approximately 400 blogs. It’s time to relaunch the blog since we need it now more than ever.

The blog was created in November 2012 as I was beginning my exploration of creating a good life through intentional practices and the science of wellbeing, ie, positive psychology after my 20 year…

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#climate change #earth #inspiration #nature #relationship #spiritual

Thriving During the Trump Presidency

Last week I attending an inspiring and beautiful tribute to the late Martin Luther King Jr (thank you Office of Institutional Diversity and Michelle Garfield Cook!). I did not realize prior to that event that I was carrying a large load of grief and sadness for the upcoming presidential transition. Dr. King’s vision never seemed in so much jeopardy. Yet I’m trying to maintain my sense of…

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#growth #inspiration #motivation #perspective

Equity and Diversity in Name Only

Justice for all; Photo credit ‘No justice, no peace’ We all understand this phrase in the context of our larger society. If we don’t have fairness, due process, appropriate consequences, and a semblance of equal opportunity, we cannot have a harmonious society. The most evident examples of this philosophy can be seen with events such as the OJ Simpson trial, Rodney King, Treyvon Martin and…

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The Purpose of the Moment

In The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy, authors Berg and Seeber remind us that academia used to be a place where faculty had time to think and reflect. Academic research was once done for the sake of expanding our general understanding of the world and ourselves, and not necessarily reduced to a commodity as it is today. This is referred to as “research…

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#being present #inspiration #motivation #work

Organizational Self-Awareness and Learning

Photo credit Self-awareness is a critical life and leadership skill that means different things to different people. I used to think that it had to do with just being aware of my thoughts and my tendency to think a certain way. I believed, therefore, that I had high self-awareness. However, self-awareness also includes having some knowledge of your subconscious choices, viewpoints, biases, and…

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#inspiration #leadership #motivation #self reflection #work

Part 3: Thinking-Feeling Spectrum: Befriend Your Alien Brain

In Parts 1 and 2, I wrote about the thinking-feeling spectrum and how our tendency to prefer T or F leaves a shadow tendency that seems to play a strong but invisible role in how we feel and behave. I likened it to an ambivalent, sometimes hostile alien that resides within us, sometimes exerting a negative influence on us, without our knowledge. Your alien thoughts/feelings can actually work…

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#acceptance #being present #inspiration #motivation #perspective

Part 2: Thinking-Feeling Spectrum - Our Alien Brain

Part 2: Thinking-Feeling Spectrum – Our Alien Brain

In Part 1, we discussed the Thinking-Feeling spectrum and the presence of the dynamic interplay between T-F despite our T or F preference. If we only factor in one set of data, we are unaware of the unseen influence of the other half on our internal experience and our external world view. My own experience affirms this notion. As a person with a strong T tendency, I have not always been in touch…

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