Crossroads Center http://www.crossroads-center.org/blog Connect with the Spirit at work in the world Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:33:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.10 en What are you going to do with your life? http://www.crossroads-center.org/blog/2008/08/26/what-are-you-going-to-do-with-your-life/ http://www.crossroads-center.org/blog/2008/08/26/what-are-you-going-to-do-with-your-life/#comments Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:39:06 +0000 crcinfo Quote of The Week http://www.crossroads-center.org/blog/2008/08/26/what-are-you-going-to-do-with-your-life/ What are you going to do with you life?
Do you know where you’re headed?
Or what you’re about?
Or who you are?

How many time have you asked yourself these questions?  How many times have you actually sat down and started to figure them out, given them the time they deserve?  It is easy to get sucked up in daily routine and BOOM, all of a sudden, three months have passed and then six months and then a year.  The good news is it’s never too late (or too early) to create a plan for the rest of your life. - Anthony Zolezzi and Kory Swanson, Do Something: Leave Your Mark on the World.
 
Examine your beliefs, values and how they take shape in action this September at Life Map: Charting a Course of Greater Purpose and Meaning, starting Thursday, September 17th (four consecutive Thursdays, 11 am to 1 pm).  See Calendar for more.

]]> http://www.crossroads-center.org/blog/2008/08/26/what-are-you-going-to-do-with-your-life/feed/ Belief System http://www.crossroads-center.org/blog/2008/08/18/61/ http://www.crossroads-center.org/blog/2008/08/18/61/#comments Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:49:04 +0000 crcinfo Quote of The Week http://www.crossroads-center.org/blog/2008/08/18/61/ If you’re acting from a coherent belief system, people should see consistency in your actions and learn to value you accordingly.  And although they don’t know why you do what you do, they will interpret your actions as a projection of a consistent belief and value system, and credit you in that context. -David McNally, Be Your Own Brand: A Breakthrough Formula for Standing Out from the Crowd
 
Examine your beliefs, values and how they take shape in action this September at Life Map: Charting a Course of Greater Purpose and Meaning, starting Thursday, September 17th (four consecutive Thursdays, 11 am to 1 pm).  See Calendar for more.

]]> http://www.crossroads-center.org/blog/2008/08/18/61/feed/ Start Right Now http://www.crossroads-center.org/blog/2008/08/11/start-right-now/ http://www.crossroads-center.org/blog/2008/08/11/start-right-now/#comments Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:04:31 +0000 crcinfo Quote of The Week http://www.crossroads-center.org/blog/2008/08/11/start-right-now/ Start right now
take a small step you can call your own
don’t follow someone else’s heroics,
be humble and focused,
start close in,
don’t mistake that other for your own.
- David Whyte, excerpted from the poem, “Start Close In,” from River Flow: New and Selected Poems

]]> http://www.crossroads-center.org/blog/2008/08/11/start-right-now/feed/ The Soul of Money http://www.crossroads-center.org/blog/2008/08/04/the-soul-of-money/ http://www.crossroads-center.org/blog/2008/08/04/the-soul-of-money/#comments Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:19:58 +0000 crcinfo Quote of The Week http://www.crossroads-center.org/blog/2008/08/04/the-soul-of-money/ “Rarely in our life is money a place of genuine freedom, joy, or clarity, yet we routinely allow it to dictate the terms of our lives…(determining) our relationship with money can be an invitation to confront our challenges, fears, addiction and attachment, remorse and regret and hurts around money, and to embrace all of it as an arena for personal growth and transformation.”
Excerpted from “The Soul of Money” by Lynne Twist

]]> http://www.crossroads-center.org/blog/2008/08/04/the-soul-of-money/feed/ For the Greater Good http://www.crossroads-center.org/blog/2008/07/28/for-the-greater-good/ http://www.crossroads-center.org/blog/2008/07/28/for-the-greater-good/#comments Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:26:12 +0000 crcinfo Quote of The Week http://www.crossroads-center.org/blog/2008/07/28/for-the-greater-good/ If you can find a way to use your signature strengths at work often, and you also see your work as contributing to the greater good, you have a calling.  Your job is transformed from a burdensome means into a gratification.  The best understood aspect of happiness during the workday is having flow, feeling completely at home within yourself when you work.
Martin E. P. Seligman, Ph.D., bestselling author of Learned Optimism and Authentic Happiness

]]> http://www.crossroads-center.org/blog/2008/07/28/for-the-greater-good/feed/ Mid-life transitions http://www.crossroads-center.org/blog/2008/07/15/mid-life-transitions/ http://www.crossroads-center.org/blog/2008/07/15/mid-life-transitions/#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:10:40 +0000 crcinfo Quote of The Week http://www.crossroads-center.org/blog/2008/07/15/mid-life-transitions/ Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Walt Whitman: the names of famous peope who began anew in the midst of adult life transitions are plentiful.  Some discovered what they really wanted and then made their changes; others found life taking the lead and only subsequently found in transitions that they didn’t want to make the opportunities to do what they seem to have been desitined to do.
- William Bridges, Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes

]]> http://www.crossroads-center.org/blog/2008/07/15/mid-life-transitions/feed/ Apex of Meaning http://www.crossroads-center.org/blog/2008/06/23/apex-of-meaning/ http://www.crossroads-center.org/blog/2008/06/23/apex-of-meaning/#comments Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:24:57 +0000 crcinfo Quote of The Week http://www.crossroads-center.org/blog/2008/06/23/apex-of-meaning/ Instead of accepting the notion of a career as an arc that rises in youth, peaks in midlife and declines into retirement, we stand poised to chart a new trajectory, one that for many will reach its apex of meaning and impact at a juncture when others in past generations were heading for the sidelines.

Marc Freedman, Encore: Finding Work that Matters in the Second Half of Life encore.org

]]> http://www.crossroads-center.org/blog/2008/06/23/apex-of-meaning/feed/ Potential Within http://www.crossroads-center.org/blog/2008/06/17/55/ http://www.crossroads-center.org/blog/2008/06/17/55/#comments Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:33:27 +0000 crcinfo Quote of The Week http://www.crossroads-center.org/blog/2008/06/17/55/ Too many of us have given in to find ourselves doing unsatisfying, empty work.  Too many of us are stuck in jobs too small for our spirits, jobs that don’t challenge us or allow us to optimize the potential we know we have within.

Cynthia Good, founding editor, Pink Magazine, pinkmagazine.com

 

]]> http://www.crossroads-center.org/blog/2008/06/17/55/feed/ Momentous Realization http://www.crossroads-center.org/blog/2008/06/10/momentous-realization/ http://www.crossroads-center.org/blog/2008/06/10/momentous-realization/#comments Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:49:31 +0000 crcinfo Quote of The Week http://www.crossroads-center.org/blog/2008/06/10/momentous-realization/ It dawns on us that we may be only halfway through our adult lives, with the bonus of extra years sandwiched between middle age and old age, effectively elongating the vital period we traditionally think of as the middle years. That realization has momentous consequences for us, and for society too.

The Transition Network and Gail Rentsch, Smart Women Don’t Retire  They Break Free

]]> http://www.crossroads-center.org/blog/2008/06/10/momentous-realization/feed/ http://www.crossroads-center.org/blog/2008/06/06/53/ http://www.crossroads-center.org/blog/2008/06/06/53/#comments Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:19:48 +0000 crcinfo Quote of The Week http://www.crossroads-center.org/blog/2008/06/06/53/ Over the course of the millennia, all the ancestors in your tree, generation upon generation, have come down to this moment in time, to give birth to you. There has never been, nor will  be, another you. You have been given a tremendous responsibility. You carry the hopes and dreams of all those who have gone before you. Hopes and dreams for a better world. What will YOU do with your time on this earth? How will you contribute to the ongoing story of humankind?

Lawrence Overmire

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