Today is Thanksgiving in the United States, a day of family, friends, and hopefully, joyful communion over a table full of good eats. One of the reasons I love Thanksgiving is that it gets people talking about gratitude. If it were up to me, we’d be flirting with and teasing this quality out of hiding […]
Author Archive | Shawn Tuttle
A helpful message in jealousy
When I tell people that I’m on my way to Thailand for a few months, sometimes the response is, “I’m so jealous!” At first I’d just acknowledge what they’d said, not really knowing what to say, and feeling a bit awkward. But it’s not like I won the lottery or something random like that. Traveling […]
Zen and the art of digital file organization
Disorganization comes in many forms and has many causes. This video is about how to approach a situation in which you’ve been fairly well organized (i.e. your digital file organization) and then Bam! a new situation arises that creates mayhem–i.e. when old systems completely fail at accommodating your new flow.
Our community, our future
The Dichotomy Community — part I Life offers countless opportunities to expand into wholeness. This fascinating cyclical journey from wondrous childhood to painful lessons in adulthood to wondrous awareness (hopefully a while before the end)—such a mysterious and perhaps perilous path. Most of us can point to one, two or a few situations in our […]
Are any of these underlying de-motivators screwing you up?
Email has become a Thorn in Our Side. It’s big. It’s ugly. It’s a Beast. It not what we think. Here’s what we believe about our email problem: too many emails not enough time can’t get caught up always responding to other people’s priorities Those aren’t problems, they are symptoms. The real problem with email […]