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 | Sep 1, 2023 | Success
What is essential is invisible to the eye. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince I have a confession to make: I’m a huge James Bond fan. I have loved them all in all of their incarnations and inanity, from Connery to Craig. Dr. No was the...
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...
