Barbara Brooks created Flamingo Strategies LLC to help clients stand up and stand out, through telling and sharing their stories of impact and purpose.
Hacking Away at Happiness is her blog.
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Despite the dire nature of the holiday, I found tremendous comfort, again this year, in the familiarity of the prayers and songs of the season.
We have work to do, my friends. We need to act and talk and learn and fight—all at the same time. We need to talk and act and screw up and learn some more.
In Almost Everything: Notes on Hope, Anne Lamott wrote: The opposite of faith is not doubt. It’s certainty. Now, there’s a Baja Aha!
Life choices aren’t just about what we want to do; they’re about who we want to be. So, it helps to know what matters to us most.
These days ahead are known as the Days of Awe. Because it’s awesome to do the right thing. Maybe even all year long.
I thought I was a solopreneur, but that’s not true. I think I’m a peoplepreneur.
The rule I live by—Always Be Opening—is my own. We do not have to fight over a finite number of good leads.
But after the silence we fear and the silence we want, there’s the silence we need. It's the “noble” silence of peace between our ears.
Existentially speaking, aren’t we all planning around—and planning for—obsolescence. The question, then, is what do we do about it?
Like the wild dingo dog that snatched an innocent baby in the Australian outback, I wondered if a pink Flamingo beast has somehow made off with my kid.
Today, on the eve of Yom Kippur, I’m picturing a massively thick Moleskine notebook. In it are the names of countless CEOs and workers, investors and entrepreneurs.
