Things constantly happen to pull the rug out from under our feet, and that kind of uncertainty can be stressful, disappointing, painful, uncomfortable.
A Life of Peacefulness
You can create a life of peacefulness in the middle of this overwhelming, stressful, busy, chaotic world. If you don’t run, but instead find the fearlessness to be with it fully.
You can create a life of peacefulness in the middle of this overwhelming, stressful, busy, chaotic world. If you don’t run, but instead find the fearlessness to be with it fully.
A Guide to a Life of Purpose
The truth is that if you can push into the discomfort, with love, and keep going … it’ll be an amazing breakthrough for you, an opening up of your habitual patterns.
The truth is that if you can push into the discomfort, with love, and keep going … it’ll be an amazing breakthrough for you, an opening up of your habitual patterns.
Finding Stillness: Resting at Home in the Middle of Chaos
There’s no need to get away from the chaos. It’s just movement, in the place where you belong.
There’s no need to get away from the chaos. It’s just movement, in the place where you belong.
Act with Devotion & Intention, Letting Go of Attachment to Outcome
The stress, fear, doubt and tension here all come from an attachment to the outcome, to how things will turn out.
The stress, fear, doubt and tension here all come from an attachment to the outcome, to how things will turn out.
When You Have a Voice Telling You You’re Inadequate
The first place to start is with the ancient meditation of compassion and loving-kindness.
The first place to start is with the ancient meditation of compassion and loving-kindness.
Two Simple Habits of Non-Procrastinators (Plus One Bonus Habit)
Most of us procrastinate, based on habits we formed as kids and teenagers.
Most of us procrastinate, based on habits we formed as kids and teenagers.
How to Choose Your Purpose-Filled Career
When people think about choosing work that’s filled with purpose, they often do it in one of several ways.
When people think about choosing work that’s filled with purpose, they often do it in one of several ways.
The Simple Pleasure of Clearing Piled Up Work & Chores
It turns out to be one of my favorite simple pleasures: coming back home and clearing things out and cleaning things up, and generally getting back into my healthy routines.
It turns out to be one of my favorite simple pleasures: coming back home and clearing things out and cleaning things up, and generally getting back into my healthy routines.
Creating the Time to Do What You Love Every Day
What would open up in you if you knew for a certainty you were going to do this thing you love today? Even if only for 30 minutes?
What would open up in you if you knew for a certainty you were going to do this thing you love today? Even if only for 30 minutes?
Haiku Productivity: The Power of Limits to Increase Our Focus
The idea comes from haiku poetry, in which the poet is limited to three lines and (essentially) 17 syllables. Such a crazy limit, and yet the poetry that can be produced is often very powerful.
The idea comes from haiku poetry, in which the poet is limited to three lines and (essentially) 17 syllables. Such a crazy limit, and yet the poetry that can be produced is often very powerful.
Mental Resiliency: Letting Go of the Guilt of Not Getting Things Done
There are thousands of variations on these, but the main theme is that things didn’t go as you’d hoped, and that causes disappointment, guilt, stress.
There are thousands of variations on these, but the main theme is that things didn’t go as you’d hoped, and that causes disappointment, guilt, stress.
Warm Ocean Mind: Becoming Immersed in the Moment
What if we could turn on that vacation mind, immersed in the warm ocean … in our everyday life?
What if we could turn on that vacation mind, immersed in the warm ocean … in our everyday life?
Grand Canyon Focus: The Practice of Full Devotion to a Single Task
Can you imagine giving something your full focus, so that it is like standing at the edge of the Grand Canyon? That is a devotion most of us very rarely give ourselves to.
Can you imagine giving something your full focus, so that it is like standing at the edge of the Grand Canyon? That is a devotion most of us very rarely give ourselves to.
Four Antidotes to Procrastination
The first thing to ask yourself, if you’re procrastinating, is: “Am I tired? Do I need to take care of myself?”
The first thing to ask yourself, if you’re procrastinating, is: “Am I tired? Do I need to take care of myself?”
Becoming a Master of the Time-Scarcity Demon
We know it well: the feeling of having too much to do and not enough time to do it all.
We know it well: the feeling of having too much to do and not enough time to do it all.