This is a personal question. I don’t expect you to blog about it, or share your answer on Facebook. You might just want to tell yourself, and your best friend, and your guardian angel. What’s chronic, repetitive, or inflamed in your inner or outer life? Muscles get inflamed and choked from repetitive overuse. And it
This is a big topic. Western self-help spirituality is great at getting us to identify our patterns and ‘isms’. After enough how-to books, workshops and therapy we can honorably say, “I’m neurotic because of my mother,” or “I’m a selfish because I didn’t get enough attention as a kid.” But identifying the source of your
When you cop to your shortcomings a number of wonderful things can happen. You become more accessible to the people around you, you invite other people to step up and shine, and you create space for support to come into your life — you actually don’t have to be awesome at everything. Go figure. Mostly,
Unfolding. Agitation. Crunchy. Relishing. Golden. Home. Safety. Expansiveness. Awakening. How do you feel with quietness? Do you seek it? Do you avoid it? When was the last time you intentionally chose silent time? What does pausing sound like to you? Does the thought of three days in a cabin without music or TV make you
Make a list of what you desire. Easy, right? More love, money, time, tenderness, play, money, comfort, power, freedom, culture, entertainment. You can get really specific with particular areas of your life, like, “I want to laugh more with my man.” Or “I want an additional $500 every pay period.” Or, “I want to spend
Things are heating up with my Huffington Post gig: 30 Days To Fire Up Your Creative Genius. Every day offers a new question + a short sermon-video, and some days have additional worksheet content — which I especially love. Here’s a taster: The whole series is being collected, HERE, on my Huffington Post page. Here’s
Rory was one of those big thinkers with the best of intentions. Lots of friends. Plenty of ideas. Sweet soul that she is, her money situation was always a mess. Rory and I were talking about earning money and I slipped this question in, ’cause I just had a feelin’: “So, where in your life
We’re taking a field trip for today’s Burning Question! I signed your permission slip and packed you a video snack. I am thrilled to announce: 30 Days to Fire Up Your Creative Genius with yours truly on The Huffington Post. Videos! You asked for ‘em! You’ll get ‘em! Everyday for a month.
I did some business and marketing strategy with a woman who introduced herself simply as “an athletic coach.” So I figured she was a freelance coach with a few local clients. It turned out that she actually had a crew of coaches working under her that she had trained in her own licensable methodology. She
It was the first time I ever had to fire someone. I was working for The Body Shop, Canada. I had good reason to believe some staff were pilfering the Peppermint Footcream and for other loser-related reasons, they needed to be sent walking. I had a great boss, Clea. I still think of her management
