Shrinkingthecamel
Connecting business life with spiritual life
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Shrinking the Camel
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Connecting business life with spiritual life.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 249 )
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Three Questions to Make You a More Valuable Contributor on the Job
Last Friday I spent a couple of hours thinking about my job instead of actually doing it.I mulled over the current state of affairs at work, what I’ve been... Read more
Posted on 28 August 2012 SELF EXPRESSION -
How to Know When You’ve Finally Arrived
Here is an excerpt teaser from my e-book, At Work as it is in Heaven. You can read this post in its entirety over at The High Calling. Or better yet, why not... Read more
Posted on 21 August 2012 SELF EXPRESSION, SPIRITUALITY -
The Spiritual Value of Wasting Time at Work
I was on speaker phone the other day with a colleague, Bruce, closing up several items regarding some new deal activity.After five minutes or so, the business... Read more
Posted on 13 August 2012 SELF EXPRESSION, SPIRITUALITY -
How to Have an Awesome Morning Routine
Are you facing another bleary-eyed morning, scrambling to get to work, wishing you hadn’t indulged in that third glass of wine last night? Welcome to your... Read more
Posted on 07 August 2012 SELF EXPRESSION, SPIRITUALITY -
Coming to Terms with the Limits of Your Strengths
I always wanted to be extraordinarily good at something. Not just as in, “Great job, Jimbo!” No, I wanted to be best-in-class, awe-inspiring, elite good; a... Read more
Posted on 31 July 2012 SELF EXPRESSION, SPIRITUALITY -
My E-book Interview with The High Calling
Here is an excerpt from an interview with Glynn Young, posted today over at The High Calling, where we talk about my e-book, At Work as it is in Heaven. Read more
Posted on 24 July 2012 SELF EXPRESSION, SPIRITUALITY -
I’d Like to Rip Off This Photo, But Now I Know Better
Some of you may remember this photo from several years ago as the image for my blog. I had done a random Google search for “Camel Needle Eye” or some such thing... Read more
Posted on 20 July 2012 SELF EXPRESSION, SPIRITUALITY -
Maybe Jesus Wants You to Stick With Your Career
Here’s an excerpt from my new e-book, “At Work as it is in Heaven” which hopefully entices you to plunk down $2.99 and add this awesome haul to your... Read more
Posted on 16 July 2012 SELF EXPRESSION, SPIRITUALITY -
Personal Vs. Professional Boundaries: Why I Used a Pen Name for Five Years
Last week I announced the startling blog-revelation that I had been writing under the pen name of Bradley J. Moore for the past four years. Read more
Posted on 10 July 2012 SELF EXPRESSION -
Why Being Vulnerable is Good for Business
I once attended a meeting where a professional services firm was making a pitch to help my company work through a certain business issue. Read more
Posted on 05 July 2012 BUSINESS, SELF EXPRESSION, SPIRITUALITY -
Some Good News (My First E-Book!) and Some Weird News (Say Goodbye to Bradley…)
First, the good news: Patheos Press has just released my first e-book.Finally! You’re thinking. What took those publishers so long? I know, I know. The uphill... Read more
Posted on 28 June 2012 SELF EXPRESSION, SPIRITUALITY -
Is Your Activity Aligned With Your Direction?
I once worked with an organization that was not quite as focused as it should have been. Their returns were on a long, slow, decline, and nobody was sure what t... Read more
Posted on 26 June 2012 SELF EXPRESSION, SPIRITUALITY -
How Micro-Prayers Can Help You Get Through the Work Day
With the advent of ubiquitous mobile social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter within reach at a moment’s notice, many of us have taken to posting cleve... Read more
Posted on 14 June 2012 SELF EXPRESSION, SPIRITUALITY -
How One Hour a Day Can Change Your Life
What if you committed just one hour a day to work on that dream project you’ve been thinking about all those years? That’s what Geoff Edgers did. Edgars was a 3... Read more
Posted on 05 June 2012 SELF EXPRESSION, SPIRITUALITY -
Your Own Private Incubation Period
If you took away the ten best days of the stock market’s history over the past 100 years, two-thirds of the cumulative gains produced by the Dow Jones... Read more
Posted on 29 May 2012 SELF EXPRESSION, SPIRITUALITY -
Don’t Let These Three Fears Drive Your Decisions
Remember the last time your response to a situation was based entirely on a spiritually grounded, selfless frame of reference, transcending ego-driven... Read more
Posted on 25 May 2012 SELF EXPRESSION, SPIRITUALITY -
It’s Almost Summer. Are You Having Fun Yet?
I once did an exercise for a leadership coach where he asked me to write out a vivid description of my ideal life in the future. Read more
Posted on 21 May 2012 SELF EXPRESSION -
Do You Have a Job, a Career, Or a Calling?
The first job I had out of high school was as a dishwasher for a white-tablecloth Italian restaurant during the late seventies. Read more
Posted on 15 May 2012 SELF EXPRESSION, SPIRITUALITY -
Stop Skimming Through Life
I sometimes feel as if I have been skipping along some superficial turf for the past several years. The frenetic pace of my brain has been like a pinball machin... Read more
Posted on 09 May 2012 SELF EXPRESSION, SPIRITUALITY -
Working Too Many Hours is Sick. Literally.
A new study was reported recently in the Wall Street Journal which followed the exploits of 24 freshly minted MBA’s over a ten year period as they entered the... Read more
Posted on 03 May 2012 BUSINESS, CAREER, SELF EXPRESSION