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Confessions of an Optimist on Thanksgiving
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“Your life – in fact, the future of the world – is within your own power to change. We just have to think differently – together.” —LYNNE McTAGGART from “HOW YOUR THOUGHTS CAN CREATE PEACE IN 2024“ Evidently, I’m the character “Joy” from the Pixar movie Inside Out, or so…
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How Your Thoughts Create Your Life
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We are on the brink of significant change on this planet and every beacon of light (that means You) is needed to to brighten the imposed darkness, and shift the global energy towards a community of intentional and conscious creation. I’ve been listening to a lot of Abraham-Hicks lately, who’s…
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“I lost my Mommy…”
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Our parents were flawed humans, not gods after all, just like the rest of us… but they will always, and forever, be our “Mommies and Daddies”. Always.
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Is DISCIPLINE a Bad Word?
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I was raised by hippies. Maybe not in the way you’d usually think of hippies. In my house everyone was a rebel. I was encouraged to express myself and even called my parents by their first names. No-one wanted to do anything on a schedule or with any discernable regularity.…
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Fog
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As I biked to work the other morning, a slow moving fog was rising off the Hudson River, filling the path ahead of me. It was a fog of which London would have been proud. I could see maybe 6 bike lengths ahead of me. A loss of focus, or…
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Mercury Retrograde: Pisces to Aquarius
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So… what was going on 3 months ago? Here we go! This retrograde cycle starts out in the watery terrain of re-exploring the quality of our lives and shifts to the intellectual consideration of our relationships on February 14th. To make things more intriguing, toss in that Venus (our planet…
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Are You an “Epiphany” Junkie?
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Warning: This post may piss you off…If one more person tells me that their event will “change my life forever” I may have to hit them with an overripe banana. I don’t know if it’s just a New York thing, but everybody and their cousin seems to be offering “breakthrough”,…
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Gratitude on Thanksgiving
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(Podcast and Post Originally Published on: 11/30/10; Revised: 11/28/13) As we enter the Holiday Season, I notice people’s mindsets tend to line up along a continuum: one extreme experiences the joy of the season, while the other wants it to be over as quickly as possible. We all have the…
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The Calm in the Pause: Scheduling Life Balance
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Post originally published: 11/20/13 The days are getting shorter, the shadows longer… chilly mornings are groggier as we try to comprehend waking up in the dark. Ancient ancestors whisper in our ears “it’s time to S-L-O-W-D-O-W-N”. In preparation for the cold freeze, we rush around, instinctively hoarding the equivalent of…
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What Do You Believe? 18 Min with Simon Sinek…
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“What you do… serves as the proof of what you believe.” – Simon Sinek Originally Published: 11/6/13 Simon Sinek TED Talk: How Great Leaders Inspire Action As so often happens, the above Ted Talk “How Great Leaders Inspire Action” given by Simon Sinek, begins by exploring the success of Apple.…