Heart-Centered Thinking: I love a great many things–my wife, my children, and my extended family and friends. I also love nature. Specifically, I love lakes, rivers, trees and the earth itself. I tell you this because I am convinced that we will only save what we love. Recently, I had the opportunity to deliver…

(Editor’s note: I’ve had a busy travel week. This week’s newsletter will be succinct.) Heart-Centered Thinking: The murder of Alexei Navalny has left me deeply troubled–and it should you as well. In this piece, “Navalny: A Hero Worth Emulating,” I make the case that Navalny is a hero we should all strive to emulate. I…

Most people are familiar with Auguste Rodin’s masterpiece “The Thinker” but, in the shadow of that great work, at the Rodin Museum in Paris sits another sculpture made from the artist’s skilled hand. The piece is known as “The Burghers of Calais” and it depicts a scene from 1346 after English King Edward III had…

Heart-Centered Thinking: If you’ve ever wondered if I take my own advice and block out large chunks of time to dedicate to the act of thinking, the answer is yes. In fact, I try to pepper in at least a few “think weeks” throughout the calendar year. This year, my wife and I traveled to…

Heart-Centered Thinking: Last week’s link to the post on my change of heart didn’t create a workable link so I am reposting it here. Bringing my “whole self” to my work has also prompted me to spend some of my thinking time on what it means to bring my “whole soul” to my work. I…

Leo Tolstoy has a marvelous quotation: “Perhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think than what one should think about.” This is especially in today’s world where our economic and political systems have created powerfully perverse incentives for politicians, pundits and businesspeople to seek our attention. One of the most…

Count down Your Years, Your Months, Your Days Count down even Your Hours, Minutes and Seconds. Quickly, You’ll Realize All You Have is this Moment. Live Accordingly– Now, Love. A Poem by Jack Uldrich

Futurist Jack Uldrich attempts to answer the question: What does it mean to bring your whole soul to your work and life?

Yesterday, I explained in this post, A Change of Heart–Truly, how I intend to bring my whole self–my whole heart, my whole soul and my whole mind–to my work as a professional futurist. In the coming days and months, I intend to use this blog to both share my thoughts as well as crystallize my…

Heart-Centered Thinking: After more than two decades of working as a professional and corporate futurist, I am changing and broadening the focus of work. In short, I intend to to bring my whole heart, my whole soul and my whole mind to my work. Unless we reunite the material world with the wisdom of the…