Lily Padding It
Welcome to a new year. And with it, the pressure to do better, to be better. To set grand goals and turn over as many leaves as possible. Or maybe not. Setting goals isn’t always the best approach, and certainly it isn’t for everyone despite the pervasiveness of it in our culture. One of my favorite alternative frameworks is the concept of “Lily padding it”, a phrase inspired entirely by Stephen Shapiro’s conversation with one…