More Vitality

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."

- Pablo Picasso

"The antidote to exhaustion is not rest. The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness."

- Brother David Steindl-rast

I was recently sitting in the office of a senior executive of a major corporation in the San Francisco Bay Area. We were meeting for the first time. During this conversation he shared with me his disappointment about work. "What happened?" he pondered. He had begun this job with such excitement and enthusiasm and now he felt discouraged and tired. "How did I get so busy, and disconnected? What happened to the enthusiasm and excitement I had for life as a child? When did my life get so out of balance?"

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