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.
All in Wellness
Once in a while I’m lonely or cranky or scared. But I am not hollow or barren or profitless. And neither are you! So let’s be aimless together.
Until now staying home, having patience, waiting out the danger, has felt both sad and necessary. But today, I’m feeling mad than sad.
In the past seven weeks, two of us survived the virus. One closed a business. A mother and a father have died. We decided to wing it and say a prayer.
As word gets around, week by week, more faces and more flames will fill our screens—until the glow is so hot, so bright, so fierce, that we’re transfixed.
As a kid I was labeled overly sensitive. Since the coronavirus came into my life I cry every day. Here are three really good reasons why you might do it too.
People pay a lot of money to cloister themselves in isolation. Depending on how we look at things—staying home can be either a punishment or a gift.
Fear of missing out is a powerful thing. But once we put that aside, we can appreciate that we are on the right path. The only path.
It’s been six weeks since my accident, and I think I’m ready to stop counting. I’m ready to move on. But I’m not ready to forget what I’ve learned.
Painting with watercolor helped me heal. In my process, I saw a metaphor for how we create our lives. I saw hope for the New Year.
How can people like me—people like us—embrace essentialism without sacrificing the enthusiasm that is our power?
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.
The fate of the Earth already is inscribed. But through our actions, we have a fantastic opportunity save our planet from doom.
Life can be hard. But every difficulty or setback also brings the potential for beneficent outcome.
If you study the market and know your stuff, you can choose the best time and place to try that big thing for which you aren’t quite prepared. As the kids say: you can “send it.”
On average, Americans know 42,000 words. And yet, in business and in life, we use the same ones over and over again. So people are likely to tune us out.
Liars are everywhere and consequences are nil. But by telling the truth we distance ourselves from the bad guys. And we experience real personal gain.
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?
The Buddha said that we all are basically good. But we probably won’t believe that until we sit still and make friends with ourselves.
Why must we label our foibles as failures? There are so many ways it’s good to be bad. Why not have fun?
