I used to think the phrase, everything in moderation sounded like wisdom. I mean, it was the piece of wisdom folks would dole out when we talked about work-life balance and we talked about alcohol. And we talked about video games, everything in moderation, everything in moderation seemed like the thing that one would say … Read More
Sacred Strides
@Sea – Ep151 – Great vs Good
A few weeks ago, I was in the middle of a call with a client, an artist I’m coaching. When? Well, we talked about the project he was doing, which is a project, by the way, that he’d been dying to do for three or four years. We finally created the time we got some … Read More
@Sea – Ep150 – Steph Curry, Marshawn Lynch, Rest and Value
During the first round of the 2023 playoffs, Stephon Curry of the Golden State Warriors, my favorite team, was on the sideline, and his head coach, Steve Kerr, came to him and said, I’m going to rest you for a little while to save your energy. Now, let me hit pause here and confess, admit … Read More
@Sea – Ep149 – Re-Evaluating Our Metrics For Success
One of the conversations that I’ve been in for many years led to the desire to put together the book sacred strides. And one of the conversations that comes up now that the book is out in the world has to do with burnout; you have most likely been around or been privy to or … Read More
@Sea – Ep148 – A Short Reflection on Vacation
I have had a somewhat unusual summer. And so far as I’ve taken a little bit of actual vacation time, I actually don’t vacation much. I’ve never been one to enjoy vacation very much. Which isn’t to say I don’t like getting away. I do like the getaway; I like having days off. I like … Read More
@Sea – Ep147 – False Self, Religious Disarray, and Joy
The more conversations I have about the book Sacred Strides and dig into the themes in the stories, the more I find myself going back to some of my own source material, which is not to say the stories I wrote about my own life, but the words and the reflections and the teachings of … Read More
@Sea – Ep146 – Hard Weeks, Integration and the Gift of Rest
My last couple of weeks, two weeks really almost at the mark right now, have been turbulent; I would say they’d been rough. But that’s mostly just been turbulent. It’s been hard. Not because I wasn’t a part of and doing some really great things, I was. I had a wonderful time in Green Bay, … Read More
@Sea – Ep145 – ChatGPT and a Better Theology of Work
I have been, in some way, shape, or form, engaged in conversation about AI technology and our relationship with technology for a really long time. In 1999, or 2000, I read Ray Kurtzweil, his book, The Age of Spiritual Machines. And I was shocked if it was way beyond my understanding the terms he was … Read More
@Sea – Ep144 – Sabbath Rest and Making Moments
You have used the phrase or heard the phrase, ‘let’s make some memories’ or ‘let’s make some moments.’ If you pay attention to the podcast, you know that for the last few weeks, I’ve been thinking a lot about the passage of time. It’s one of the things that came up a lot as I … Read More
@Sea – Ep143 – What I Learned While Writing Sacred Strides
It has been said, and I’ve come to believe this as a truth, that writing for an author is as much as anything else, a process of self-discovery, that one of the things that happen necessarily, in the process of writing, actually writing is that I see myself, I look into my own soul, I … Read More