By project I mean anything that takes time, energy, and attention to complete. There’s no difference between a work project or a personal project when it comes to pulling from the limited time, energy, and attention we have.

We may do this because we have the wrong people on our team and we’re thus afraid to be vulnerable enough to express our wants, needs, and dreams. In other cases, we do it because we don’t actually know what our true wants, needs, and dreams are and we’re waiting for inspiration to find us. In the meantime, people are following their own course and

A project is anything that requires time, energy, and attention to complete.

As my dual careers as an officer and scholar progressed, I was vexed by the fact that, though I could plan, coordinate, and lead hundreds of troops and trucks, I was challenged as a scholar by a few papers a semester.

naming the roadblocks, patterns, mindsets, and practices that support and get in the way of our ability to do our best work, for naming them makes it easier to spot what’s going on and to know what to do in response.

PROJECTS ARE MIRRORS AND BRIDGES

our head trash gets more pronounced and intense,

for intention to have any grip, it has to be about something.

I started sharing my insights, retranslations, syntheses, and tools with other people at what would become my website, Productive Flourishing.