Hope vs Optimism
by Eddie Pipkin Photo by Dayne Topkin on Unsplash Perhaps you are familiar with the work of Arthur Brooks, author, academic, and researcher of the science of happiness. He has lots of practical [...]
Unforced Joy
by Eddie Pipkin Image by Ivana Tomášková from Pixabay Last week I wrote about Starbucks and “forced joy,” a directive from corporate leadership that employees would express joyful interactions by writing encouraging messaging [...]
Forced Joy
by Eddie Pipkin Did you see Starbucks in the news in recent weeks for adding an additional mandate to the responsibilities of employees? Beginning in January, according to an edict from CEO Brian Niccol, all [...]
Thing Before the Thing
by Eddie Pipkin Image used under Pixabay content license. I had designated the past couple of weeks to work on home projects. I am not known as a handy guy. I can get [...]
Verve
by Eddie Pipkin Image by Perlinator from Pixabay I went to the county fair with my wife and my godson last week, and although we had gone mostly to check out the prize-winning [...]
SNL Ministry
by Eddie Pipkin Image by StockSnap from Pixabay I’ve always been a Saturday Night Live fan, and I’ve been consuming comedy for most of the show’s tenure, so I really enjoyed the 50th [...]