January 2010
11 posts
Free Buckets
By Tzvi Freeman
Sometimes all your buckets, as well, are handed you from above. Sometimes you don’t decide how G‑d will bless you with an income to support your family. Sometimes you are Joseph, captured and tied to a destiny too great for you to fathom.
Then your job is just to do the best you can with whatever you’re given—honestly and earnestly.
And put your confidence in your real...
Seth Godin : Why is it so difficult to ship?
Why is it so difficult to ship?
Ship as in get it out the door. Ship as in make a difference at work. Ship as in contribute your art and vision and expertise and passion to the project you’re working on.
Regular readers of this blog (and of Leo’s life-changing book) have seen first hand what happens when you force the distractions out of your life and focus on what needs to be completed instead....
Wynton Marsalis : Jazz and Business Leadership
Leading a company is often compared to conducting an orchestra. But organizing a jazz band may be a more appropriate analogy. That’s because business leaders increasingly want to set free the creative juices of individuality while maintaining the discipline to make music, not noise. USA TODAY’s Del Jones went to Wynton Marsalis, 45, artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, who was...
Z'chut - By Tzvi Freeman
There is a common misconception that life is about being in the right place at the right time. In truth, how you experience life has more to do with what is happening inside you as with what is happening outside.
If your soul is not prepared, a paradise of miracles could become a roller coaster from hell.
If you are not well tuned to the channel of life, a symphony of miracles could come...
The true purpose of monetary wealth
People across the world are responding to the tragedy of Haiti with unprecedented gifts of charity:
Wealth must never be a cause of darkness through which one is blinded to the needs of a brother. Wealth should be handled with light; it should bring a person to see the needs of the other.
(via Rabbi Zalmen Marozov)
Seeding Miracles
When our universe as we know it first emerged, the soil of the earth was imbued with a wondrous power—the power to generate life.
Place a tiny seed in the ground and it converts the carbon of the air into a mighty redwood— a decomposing seed awakens the power of the infinite.
Yet another miracle, even more wondrous: A quiet act of kindness buried in humility ignites an explosion of G‑dly...
Transforming Liability Into Assets
Challenges: Seeds for Growth by Simon Jacobson
Why must a seed rot before sprouting into a flower? Why do we feel anxious before scaling new heights? Why is there no gain without pain? Why must we shed one layer to assume another?
Why is challenge the catalyst of change, resistance the engine of power and pressure the fuel of strength?
All growth, all progress is borne out of some form of...
Beyond Faith & Intellect
Intellect is inadequate because not all things can be explained. Intellect needs faith.
Faith is impotent because truth remains forever unreal. Faith needs intellect.
But they are opposites, as contradictory as being and not being. Faith accepts; Intellect questions. Faith surrenders; Intellect struggles.
Miraculously, there is a power that can join them in harmony, and it is called wisdom:...
When two people meet
When two people meet it is more than the sum of the parts; their synergy can plant a seed that will bear perpetual fruit. Let us commit to help each other carve away the clutter and distractions of our material lives and release the “angel” within.
Imagine, just imagine, if each of us applied that attitude to every person we met and to our every interaction…
(via Rabbi Simon Jacobson)