The 4 Spheres of Intentional Living
Physical, Intellectual, Emotional, and Spiritual: consistent, intentional practice of these four “spheres” provides additional capacity to love your career and enhance your quality of life in the face of constant change and disruption. In this quick read, John expands on mindfulness, learning agility, and storytelling by offering additional tips and perspectives from various thought leaders and his own experiences. The 4 Spheres will help you learn to become healthier and more innovative, self-aware, strategic, and compassionate, and is relevant for anyone committed to professional and personal growth.
The Book Club Widowers
Family life is often an incubator for the confusion, distraction, and stress that professionals experience while facing nonstop change, accelerating technological disruption, and the collective “noise” that grows louder each day. In this page-turning, “literary mystery” of a thriller, three suburban mothers take their wine-filled, literary discussions on a girls’ beach trip. And mysteriously vanish. The husbands and fathers remain behind, balancing their personal ambitions and failures with trying to help their bewildered children move forward into a new normal. Detectives seek evidence of a crime, and ambiguity reigns as lines blur between friends, lovers, and enemies.
Narcissus Blinked
Three Nashville-based novellas explore the perspectives, strengths, and flaws of creative people seeking clarity and fulfillment amid nonstop change, accelerating technological disruption, and the collective “noise” that grows louder each day. Spend a day in the life of advertising executive Jacob, a semester with new graduate student and budding poet Kate, and a weekend with single father and writer Brian. You’ll be entertained and inspired as these characters tap into latent resilience, discovering deeper capacities to be more mindful, continue to learn and grow, and compose an even better life story.
Navigating This Site’s Content
Visit these three blog collections for overviews, examples, and tips on topics I tend to write about the most: Storytelling Learning Mindfulness Dig...
SPOILER ALERT! America IS Working…Just as Intended
“This is not America!” many people (usually white, if we’re being real) keep saying when horrified at mass shootings, overt racism, removal of...
Reflections on My Brother Frank and the “Meaning of Life”
April 3, 2022 I'm feeling more joyful and peaceful after a couple days of re-grounding myself in the basics of Buddhism (my core psychological...
Reflections and Observations
September 24, 2021 My first Fitbit is on the way! Yes, I'm very late to the party, but I need new types of tracking and motivation these days to...
Books I Recommend (updated)
Storytelling (Including Marketing and Mythology) Hutchens, David, Story Dash! McRay, Michael T., I Am Not Your Enemy: Stories to Transform a Divided...
Storytelling comes first!
Tonight I had a mind blowing epiphany about storytelling in relation to learning and mindfulness. Those are my “Big 3,” and for years I’ve...
Democracy’s Inflection Point: Voting Rights and Access
Voting rights and access continue to be assaulted by state legislatures and the U. S. Supreme Court. There appears to be no end in sight. As a...