Are you scared? So am I. And I am doing it anyway. Life promised me things. A great career, a great relationship, a great horizon. As I deepened myself in the process of it all, I emerged broken, shattered, perplexed, shunned. It didn’t turn out […]
Pedaling a bicycle with the brakes on is exhausting. The harder you try, the more you sweat. But despite all that effort, you don’t seem to be getting anywhere — fast. Have you ever noticed how pervasive resistance is? It is literally everywhere. We combat traffic, […]
Never underestimate the power of flow. It is a state of being that brings all kinds of amazing things to the surface. Flow is defined as the timeless space in our heads that we experience when distinctly engaged in whatever we are doing. Athletes call […]
Let things go and they will find you again. It’s Universal law that that to which we clutch will only squirm away. That to which we release will enter the flow, streaming back to you, sometimes in a new form. For two years I thought […]
Have you ever observed the battle of wills between a parent and a child? The parent insists that the kid should eat his vegetables. The child, in his fury, resists. The more the parent demands a certain action, the more the child refuses to deliver […]
At the very beginning of this marvelous summer (or winter, for you Southern Hemisphere readers), I wrote of surrender. As any writer will tell you, we mostly write about the things we need to learn most. And so it is with this blog. A lot […]
In our device-driven world, we are not only connected with our families and friends at the touch of a button, we are also sincerely disconnected when we misplace the tools that let us connect in the first place. Take my iPhone, that went missing for […]