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Well-Being Isn’t Doing Well
At some point, feeling okay quietly turned into another thing we’re supposed to get right. How We Turned “Being Well” Into a Side Hustle It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when “well-being” became something we all started talking about, but somewhere along the way it made a quiet, almost polite exit from the background of life and reappeared as a full-time expectation. What used to be an inner orientation gradually turned into something we’re supposed to actively do. Not just oc
Michael Brooks
Jul 49 min read


The Practice of Noticing: What a Color Photo Trend Teaches Us About Mindfulness
Most of us move through the day on autopilot.
Email → meeting → meeting → lunch → more meetings.
But I recently noticed a fascinating trend on social media: people walking through neighborhoods searching for one specific color to photograph.
At first glance it looks like a creative photography challenge.
But it’s actually a powerful attention training exercise.
Michael Brooks
Mar 295 min read


Mindfulness at Work: Organizational Change Management Needs More Awareness, Not More Dashboards
We often talk about change as if there are two sides: those implementing it and those impacted by it. In reality, most of us move between both roles, sometimes within the same week. This post is for anyone navigating that space.
Michael Brooks
Feb 19 min read


A Reflection On 9/11: Messages in the Ashes
What follows is a personal account of my experience during 9/11. As a photography enthusiast, I always had a camera nearby and am grateful that I had the where-with-all to carry it with me everywhere I went that day and on the days that followed. In the days that followed, I posted these images on a makeshift website to share with my friends and family then took them down some time later. Not long ago, I came across them and thought it might be something to re-share with the
Michael Brooks
Mar 1, 20226 min read

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