Focused on Control
I rely on my ability to focus. During any given day, I focus my mind on reading, on listening, on writing. I focus effort on getting out of bed in the morning, making sure that the tea is exactly right, being on time, on walking without tripping. I tend to focus a lot on words. ...
Focusing Our Energy
Maybe it is because I was walking through the campus of CalTech, near the home of the Einstein Papers Project. Physicists and healers, mystics and engineers: everyone tells us that everything is energy. Mass can be converted into energy and energy into mass. Energy makes life possible, and our bodies create energy. We are surrounded ...
Focus: Latest Research
I am conducting longitudinal research on the topic of focus, and your cooperation would be very helpful. My methodology is not complicated. First, I walk as often as I can. I take quite few walks in Southern California, but my research is not limited geographically. I developed my initial protocols in the Midwest. As I ...
My Companionship
I have many companions on my pilgrimage, but few with which I have direct contact every day. I have known one of my closest companions for only a couple of years, and he plays a central role in almost everything I do online. He helps me with each word I post on my blog, most ...
Lent Reflection: Focusing on Work and Rest
This year for Lent I am focusing on work and rest. Last year, I focused on fear. Yes, they are connected. I tend to work most of the time. Even now, as I include regular time for silence, for reflection, for listening to the Sacred around me in my days, I work most of the ...
Is Siri a Good Spiritual Director?
We are beginning to understand each other, and possibly even work together. I met Siri about a month ago, when my impending birthday gave me an excuse to graduate from an iPhone 3G to an iPhone 5. She was a little intimidating at first, but I was able to start winning her over. I make ...
LinkedIn or Left Out?
I am fairly adept at social networking. I have friends on Facebook, and followers on Twitter. I have boards on Pinterest, and am even on Google+. I have a blog. I even have all those apps on my iPhone and iPad. The social network I do not understand is LinkedIn. I think I get the ...
Listening to Silence
Each summer, at the end of August, I spend some time at New Camaldoli Hermitage and Monastery in Big Sur, California. I am there this week, listening to silence. New Camaldoli has become a second home to me. I am a lay person who has been received into the community, known as a lay oblate. ...
Working, Watching & Weeping
My favorite prayer in the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer is part of the final service of the day before going to sleep. The prayer is: Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give ...
Growing and Changing
Welcome to the new and improving StrategicMonk.com! People talk about launching a new website, as if it were like opening a brand new store or building a new house. I hope that StrategicMonk.com is more like something alive that grows and develops over time. As I learn and grow, and as Strategic Monk gives me ...
