Surviving Quarantine Part 2
I am happy to announce, by the time you are reading this, I will have completed my third extended quarantine in China. This time 10-days in the luxurious suburbs of Beijing. Doing this now three times, I have figured out a flow to get through the days. A combination of eating meals, snacking, work, conference […]
A Helping Hand, A Touch of Modesty
Sitting in quarantine this past week in Taipei, Taiwan offered lots of time to think and reflect. Getting through the multiple quarantine’s I have experienced includes a regimen of eating, exercise, reading, work, television, and catching up with various people. Staying busy is the recipe to making the time pass quickly. While I was in […]
A Time To Celebrate, A Time To Reflect
Well friends, this weekend I celebrated my 60th birthday, and it was a time of reflection, celebration and renewal. I have been thinking through the major milestones in my life over the past six decades, and if you will indulge me, I have listed them here: Six Decades of Luck Decade 1: Formative Years – […]
Fusion, Future & Family
A few years ago I was reading an article about the lengths Steve Jobs went to make sure people connected at Pixar Studios. I found an explanation referring to this. “[Jobs] insisted there be only two bathrooms in the entire Pixar studios, and that these would be in the central space. And of course this […]
A Little Compassion
Last Tuesday, the story of Isaiah Jarvis, who in the middle of the Little League Southwest Region World Series baseball game, got hit in the head with a baseball and responded with hugging the distraught pitcher who tossed the ball, appeared everywhere. If you are in the US, you probably saw this because it went […]
Perspectives From 30 Years in The Greater China Region: ShanghaiZhan Podcast
One of my great passions in life has been learning about and experiencing new cultures. I had the great fortune of living and working in the Greater China Region for 30 years and witnessing its incredible growth and changes. I have met many fantastic people along the way, several of whom are part of this […]
Stretching Yourself Towards Success
For this week’s Monday Morning Mojo I want to touch on the subject of getting out of your comfort zone as a means to greater happiness and success. This has been top-of-mind with me this week because I have been trying to do just that. I can’t say I am any closer to success, but […]
Philosophy 101: Finding Happiness
Wishing everyone in the United States a very happy July 4th this weekend. I am writing from Mexico today where we are spending time with the Kochlowski family, who were our neighbors in Beijing. I have written here a lot about finding happiness and the importance of relationships in doing so. My post of March […]
Fatherhood Stream of Conscious
Yesterday, in the United States, we celebrated Father’s Day, a holiday honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. Over the past thirty years living in Asia, I have been fortunate to celebrate Father’s Day twice a year, as Father’s Day in China is celebrated each year on August […]
Heroes Among Us
The Monday Morning Mojo was created to highlight many of the positive things happening in this world amid the craziness we see daily on television and read in the news. And, these past two weeks have been unusually troubling in the United States with the Uvalde, Texas school shooting that killed 21 people. This, in […]