Daniel Gilbert wrote a wonderful book, Stumbling on Happiness.

The line quoted below from page 4 of the book made me think about authentic employee engagement versus programs and policies that look like they foster employee engagement:

But as bald men with cheap hairpieces always seem to forget, acting as though you have something and actually having it are not the same thing, and anyone who looks closely can tell the difference.

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LOVE: A Pathway to employee engagement?

What might it be like to awaken each day into an increasing sense that being loving is even more important than being loved? ~ Stephen Levine

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What’s most important?

Elizabeth Hamilton has written an intriguing short book, Untrain Your Parrot.

I have read the question she asked in Chapter 1 before about what’s most important. Yet, I appreciated her phrasing and broader perspective:

If you died today, would your obituary reflect your professed values? Or entropy: “She let the important things slide, and then she died.” The obituary question invites us to reflect on whether the things we consider most important are echoed in our use of time, money, and energy.

The question isn’t just “What’s important to me?” — which is likely to veer toward self-centered responses; it’s “What’s most important, from an all-encompassing, life-centered, or reality-centered perspective?” After all, life is life-centered rather than self-centered, unlike people.

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NOW

It’s a good day when we don’t need to be doing anything else than what we’re doing, when we don’t need to be anywhere else than where we are. On this day, our life is fine as it is and we are free from having to improve and instead, just engage it as it is.  ~ Jack Ricchiuto: A good day.

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