2,000 Mornings with Thoreau

Photo credit: Nancy Lord Lewin

I have one daily practice that hasn’t changed for close to six years: every day, I drink my morning coffee from this mug. I bought the mug for $15.00 in 2014 right around the same time I got the idea to start my business, Asana Consulting. In its shiny new days, this mug’s words (paraphrased from Henry David Thoreau’s 1854 Walden) were a tangible source of motivation on my daunting new career path: “Go confidently in the direction of your…