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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Busy keeps us from knowing what we really want. Busy gives us the illusion we’re important. Busy isn’t something to be proud of. It’s an obstacle that prevents self awareness and real connection.
Severance is not only a dark farce about corporate domination and workers who bond in their eagerness to belong. It’s also a commentary on love.
I was drawn to the book because of my marital redundancy. What I learned is that we all have three marriages. At the same time. Welcome to the new polyamory!
Counterintuitive head scratchers thrill me to no end. Why? Surprise activates curiosity, excitement, and wonder. It intensifies our emotions by about 400 percent.
Since Covid, we’ve all been drinking more. Wine. Whiskey. Bone broth. Coffee and tea. And lots and lots of lemonade. Loaded with sugar. And watered way down. Made from silver lemons.
With more than a million people dead worldwide since February, the line between persisting and pestering is no longer the point.
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.
Even on the days we feel scared or bored or invisible, of this we can be certain: The best years of our lives lie just “over the hill” up ahead.
Jim said it best: “I wish there was a way to know you’re in the good old days before you’ve actually left them.”
