Daily Spark

Your ruckus - the conflict that sometimes gets created when you share ideas that you believe in - is nothing to be ashamed about. Instead, it's what you bring to the table to achieve the best ideas, …

One day you really will have lived your final 24 hours and the only way to  avoid the tragedy of having wasted that day or any other part of your life is make it a habit of acting in a way that you d…

Speak to empower, not to cut. Act to help, not to harm. It’s not a way -- it’s the way.

Your kindness to others today matters just as much as your kindness to others tomorrow matters. The compassionate and kind world we seek doesn't happen in a day, it happens we show up for it every da…

The way you change the culture is the way you treat any other long game: you see each act for the essential building block of the future that it is.

Part of getting to a place worth being is choosing to act in its direction

Like any worthwhile endeavor, cultivating compassion takes time and patience but it’s well worth it because there is a more kind, gentle, and loving world waiting for us at the other end of it.

Your voice and actions breed awareness. Awareness breeds compassion. Compassion breeds acceptance, tolerance, and healing.

Every time you speak up, you create the opportunity for others to develop awareness and compassion for the issues you think are critical. Awareness and compassion are the foundation on top of which i…

As you endeavor to make progress — to move towards a better and important place — consider these three facets that make it possible: focus, remembrance, and specific action.

Needing to take a rest isn't about weakness or failure, it's about meeting your needs as a human so you can flourish and be helpful to others.

You actually can do many of the things you've been meaning to do. You just haven't yet - why? Because if you're like most people, you need multiple exposures to inspiration, ideas, community, and sup…

Good work and creating an impact has never been about the specific solution, it’s about a repeated process of replacing current solutions with a better way to do things

The finite nature of your time makes a great case for thinking critically about what work is worth spending your limited time on.

When it comes to the quality of your experience and how you deal with challenging moments in life, the quality of your mind and where you focus your attention is all you have.

The tendency to solve forward is makes perfect sense — it comes intuitively and no one questions the approach when you bring it up in meetings. To only solve forward, however, is to deprive yourself …

Creating value isn’t something that’s done in one act, it’s the result of 1) finding a solvable problem, 2) committing to regularly ship work that may help address the problem, 3) listening to your i…

Every thing you could do — whether it’s starting a new project, saying something you’ve been meaning to say, or performing a task that’s part of a larger effort — is preceded by decision about time: …

Sometimes when you are caught up in the work, expectations and judgment, and deadlines it helps to be reminded of a simple truth: you’re human.