What can I say today? A new year’s tale.

For the past month we’ve been packing and saying goodbye to our Seattle home and lives, fretting about our new home loan processes closing on time (which they didn’t, we closed December 24th instead of the 18th, which was a lot more stressful than it sounds), and then...

Real superpower #1: Finding fun in all of the above

Have you ever hit a point when you realized that a bunch of things you used to find really fun are just not that much fun for you anymore? What did you do about it? I hit that point this summer. Hit the point of realizing that a pile of things that used to be fun for...

Allowing space and time to embrace “I don’t know”

While cleaning my office this morning I found an old journal called Gratitude: A Journal. It actually says that on its salmon-colored cover and spine. According to the first entry, I got it in July 2009—and as I now recall, I got one for me, one for my mom, and one...

Receiving time

I’m at Office Nomads coworking space today, joining others for an hour of “free writing time.” We came together, shut off the email, the Internet, the phone, and the iPad to just write. The folks at the table around me haven’t been finding enough time in their days to...

Finding all of me

This post is part of Create Your Own Travel Guide Month, celebrating the release of our new book A Travel Guide for Transitions… As we created our book this spring, it came clear to Bas that by taking his journey outside the corporate world he had discovered an...