Sept. 9 - 14, 2019

Last week, at a glance.

Monday: When we begin to conceive of ourselves as “orchardists", our work becomes our means to change the world for the better; our work becomes a hopeful and generous investment into tomorrow.

Tuesday: Good intentioned folks regularly ask, “What would it look like if such and such happened?” It’s the default comment when exploring a different kind of future than the one we’re headed toward. What it becomes, however, is a placeholder for asking the harder question, which is, “What do we do about it?”

Wednesday: The opposite of busy is not laziness. Or listlessness. The opposite of busy is intentional. Intentionality always begins with the question, “What is this or that for?”, and then when that is answered, asks, “Is it worth it?”

Thursday: If you don’t have the time to form a habit that sticks, which is an incremental investment into a much larger transformation, you definitely don’t have the time to go back and start over after the shortcut proves wasteful.

Friday: The goal is to bring patience, sensitivity, compassion, and a capacity to truly listen to differences to our work. To marry our work with our true self. To embrace our identity as a gift to (not a distraction from) our work. The goal is to operate from the soul, upward.

Saturday: People like us that are unwilling to continue with the way things are will stop seeing meals as interruptions in our schedules. Instead, they are a hard pause that help us make sense of the purpose and place of the rest of our schedule.

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