Author Archive | Agent M1

Your Mission: Live and BE in the present. No point fretting about a future that may only last another day.

Sometimes we are simply yin and yang. I was at a weeklong workshop and enjoyed some healthy debate about the impact of the iPhone on human behavior. One client said he thought it was the demise of our civilization. After much banter, he realized that what he was saying was contradictory to his own values […]

Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Don’t be the only thing in your way and achieve nothing. Get out of your head so you can get shit done. Life is too short! Be kind. Be safe. Be appropriate. Now go!

Sometimes we inadvertently achieve the undesirable “kicked puppy status” in life or at work, where someone above us is taking advantage of our dependence to survive. What about you, do you believe in the threats coming at you by those of a higher station? Is fear clouding your vision and clarity? Are you too ashamed that you won’t […]

I know I’m not alone when I have my days of wondering, what’s it all for. Why is life so effing hard? I wonder ‘to what end’ sometimes too. Especially when we have taught ourselves that personal fulfillment is more important than collective fulfillment. Self without society equals? Your mission, if you choose to accept […]

These days everyone’s a critic. We can’t seem to get through a day without looking down upon the media or whatever the media is reporting about or even our own damn reflection. Time to change that. Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Be a positive critic of yourself and of others.

  We can’t always navigate life to a happy ending – at least not on our own. And when we cannot see through the fog, or see what’s clearly ahead of us, we have friends, mentors or family to show us the way through the gray. Your mission: Don’t go it alone. When you’re on the wrong path […]