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Two Perspectives on 'What Matters Most ?' Two different perspectives on the same topic  from two different continents, cultures, and genders viz. Janet Smith Warfield, J.D. from Florida, USA and Dr. Amit Nagpal from New Delhi, India Janet Smith Warfield's perspective Well, what does matter most? Things? People? Love? Living your values? What if we simplify the question. What if we ask instead, “What matters most right here, right now, in this moment? And what if we add “What matters most right here, right now, in this moment, to you.” Not always easy to answer, even when we narrow it down to the present moment and you. But it is far easier than asking the general question we started out with, “What matters most?” So many things matter: our homes, our families, our pets, our jobs, our cars, our lawns, our communities, our churches.             And what about love, peace of mind, non-vio...

 A Guest Post on Work/Life Balance by Rory Kelly Connor We hear a lot about work/life balance. Everyone seems to know what that means and has ideas about how to achieve it. Yet, we all continue to struggle with it. I'd like to take a look, for a moment, at how we have organized this as a concept, an ideal, the parts of which we want to place on two sides of a scale in an attempt to achieve an equal weight on both sides. Work on one side. Life on the other. Hmmm. Do we really want an equal amount of work on one side and life on the other?  This concept also suggests that work and life are two different, and separate, functions of our existence. Maybe this is true for you. Or maybe the work you do is core to who you are and what makes you feel alive, like breathing. Both situations have challenges attached to them and a need for healthy parameters that allow us enough time for rest, rejuvenation, and renewal. What is often misunderstood is that each person's nee...