The Compressed Version of Your Life
We are living in the age of compression. This morning, it struck me how much of modern life is being designed to make everything shorter, faster and easier to consume.…
Category: The Trim Journal
Your Business Grew. Did Its Architecture?
There is a stage of business growth that is surprisingly difficult to see when you are inside it. The business is successful. Revenue has grown. Clients trust you. You know…
The Life Beneath the Urgency
Walk with me for a moment. There are mornings when the mind arrives before we do. Before our feet touch the floor, it has already started its inventory: what needs…
The Invisible Permission to Live.
Walk with me for a moment. I have been thinking about good people. Deeply good people. The ones who feel other people’s pain almost before they feel their own. The…
The Greatest Gift We Can Give Our Children
Walk with me for a moment. I’ve been noticing something beautiful. It has nothing to do with academic achievement or natural confidence, and everything to do with understanding ourselves. When…
The Conversation Before the Conversation
There is a moment I have come to recognize with remarkable consistency. It happens after someone has heard me speak, attended a workshop or quietly discovered my work. They can’t…
When Sadness Visits
One of my clients shared something beautiful with me this week. “I feel so sad,” she said. “I don’t know why.” Her instinct was to analyze it, to search for…
The gravity of yesterday
There comes a moment after every great awakening that surprises us. We imagine that once we understand how our lives are created, once we can explain paradigms, subconscious conditioning and…
Why We Return to What Hurts
I have often wondered why human beings continue to choose the very thoughts that create their suffering, even after they understand where those thoughts come from. It seems almost impossible…
Every dream has a Gatekeeper
There is a moment that almost nobody talks about. It arrives just before life asks us to become someone we have never been before. Not afterwards, when people admire our…