by Walt Hampton | Sep 29, 2023 | Success
Brené Brown, in her beautiful book The Gifts of Imperfection, has a wonderful exercise: List your “ingredients for joy and meaning,” she instructs. It’s a powerful exercise because, for most of us, the ingredients are pretty simple; and they don’t cost...
by Walt Hampton | Sep 15, 2023 | Success
Achieve nothing. Kind of like jumbo shrimp. As I stretched out for my run the other morning, I began to read an article in the Buddhist publication Tricycle on the spiritual pitfalls of multi-tasking. Tricycle is an excellent quarterly filled with...
by Walt Hampton | Sep 8, 2023 | Success
Ok people, it’s done. Summer’s over. The vacation’s behind you. No more lazy lunches. No more casual Fridays. It’s time to put away the Dockers… and the swimmies. It’s time to get back to it. Fall is here. Time to get busy; time to get serious. No more leisure,...
by Walt Hampton | Aug 25, 2023 | Success
Would that it were so! That might have been interesting. But alas… it was not my bed… I was handcuffed to work that was sucking my soul. I loved law school. The reading, the research, the classroom, the debates, the arguments. All of it. But within months of...
by Walt Hampton | Aug 11, 2023 | Success
Winemakers in Châteauneuf-du-Pape must adhere to strict guidelines if they wish to present their wines to the marketplace as wines from the Châteauneuf-du-Pape region . One curious rule is that, except in extraordinary circumstances (and then only...
