Streaming Consciousness Blog | Read Malcolm’s Musings on Business, Leadership and Life

Without fail, when I reveal to someone that I recently moved from San Diego to Tucson, their response is an incredulous, WHY? Understandable. San Diego is one of the most desirable hometowns on the planet. While cost of living was a factor, there was a more profound motivation behind the relocation.

During my 30 years in San Diego, I established many cherished relationships, favored haunts and restaurants, and developed an appreciation for living in a technologically and culturally cutting-edge community. Life was good.

As a young aspiring professional athlete and later, a dedicated business builder, I was driven, unsatisfied and self-critical. I’ve observed that condition in many would-be high achievers. 

A recent NY Times article stated, “Self-criticism can take a toll on our minds and bodies,” said Dr. Richard Davidson, founder and director of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he also teaches psychology and psychiatry. “It can lead to ruminative thoughts that interfere with our productivity, and it can impact our bodies by stimulating inflammatory mechanisms that lead to chronic illness and accelerate aging…”

Ready to be a force for wellbeing and a healthy planet?  If you apply the Conscious Capitalism model, you don’t need to don a cape to transform your company into a force for good! 

In case you haven’t heard, Conscious Capitalism is a fast-growing global movement committed to elevating humanity through business. Specifically, it’s about aligning life purpose with business values – and acting accordingly – in order to build the most successful business. Duh, right? Who doesn’t want meaningful, purpose-driven work? Yet, a great majority of us don’t regularly experience soul nourishment from work. The statistics are widely known: Globally, 85% of employees are not engaged at work (Gallup 2017.) Staggering!

So, here we are at the launch of my long-avoided blog. I’ve come around to the idea that this can be interesting, educational, therapeutic (for me at least), funny and soul nourishing. Maybe not all at the same time, though I will do my best.  

You will find here stories of life, work, and pursuit of higher purpose. I promise candid sharing of my learnings in all their profundity, silliness, pain and unexpectedness. I’ll be addressing conscious leadership and conscious living, developing and nurturing relationships, meaningful work, fulfillment, wellbeing, and the interconnectivity of all these things.