Lori Abichandani
@loriabichandani
Lori Abichandani
- I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.”
I suppose what I’m trying to offer here, both to myself and to you, is this:
Permission to trust what is happening when you can’t seem to find the words.
Permission to take off your meaning-making hat and simply soften into the moment.
Permission to let what you lo... See morefrom Like a river flows
- Here he is: “In addition to cognitive intelligence —which is still important—we also have emotional intelligence, moral intelligence, musical intelligence, aesthetic intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence, kinesthetic or bodily intelligence, mathematical intelligence, social or interpersonal intelligence, values intelligence, and spiritual intell... See more
from The 12 Types of Intelligence (and Counting)
“I have a theory that chasing things that scale makes you need therapy, and the therapy is pursuing things that can’t scale. I once wrote that every entrepreneur’s dream is to succeed at building an impossibly hard business and then finally open a local coffee shop to be happy.”
from Notes on scale + quality
- And if a mediator is indeed brought in – they’re not simply firefighting. They’re bringing structure, freshening perspectives, and leveling up the community beyond what they could do by themselves. It’s additive support , not a last ditch effort.
from We All Need to Be Conflict Mediators
- Be the farthest out, yourself. As the host or the guide or the coach or the leader, can you be the one the farthest from shore, so that everyone else feels safe? How might you take a risk, be vulnerable, or be brave, so that they might be too? Imagine...you being the one to share your super ugly prototype first.
- Help them go deep, then paddle in
from The Jaws-iversary
- Consider the possibilities. How rewarding would our workplaces be if we all devoted our fullest energies to helping those we work with to develop their inherent ability and effectively express more of who they are? How amazing would it be if every company were to do that? Imagine a country built on this concept—committed to helping everyone not jus... See more
from Ari's Top 5—On Helping Others Get to Greatness
- Rather, this is about creating ecosystems in which people are encouraged and supported, where they have access to tools and techniques, helpful organizational “recipes,” and examples of positive living so that they might move slowly but surely into themselves. It’s not magical and it doesn’t happen overnight, but in the right space and at the right... See more
from Ari's Top 5—Helping Others Get to Greatness
- In a world where copies and fakes and phonies and phoning-it-in to do as little as possible are so common, doing something truly different that’s true to who we are and makes a meaningful difference in the world remains a special thing.
from Ari's Top 5—The Value of Doing Things Differently
- Celebrate smallness. Don’t rush past it too quickly. Embrace it. Relish it as a beautiful moment that we can only hold onto for so long.
Small is more meaningful than big.from Small is more meaningful than big