"Tell a Better Story."

from a billboard advertising a new car, an SUV that will take people to new and interesting destinations. Ha! As if a car (much less a gas guzzler) can teach us new tricks!

Why can't we take our lives and work as seriously as we take our automobiles? Why do we let advertisers seduce us into buying products that only make us think we've changed our lives? What does it take to choose adventure, large or small, instead of buying the image of adventure, to choose joy, large or small, instead of buying the image of joy, to CHOOSE A BETTER STORY TO LIVE?? Especially during an economic downturn, it's vital to reconnect to our authentic selves and create sustainable success in our relationships, our work and our inner integrity.

"Wild Geese" (by Mary Oliver)

You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees

for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will till you mine.

Meanwhile the world goes on.

Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain

are moving across the landscapes,

over the prairies and the deep trees,

the mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,

are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,

the world offers itself to your imagination,

calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -

over and over announcing your place

in the family of things.

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