Sure, everyone wants to be happy. Everyone wants to stop feeling crappy. The natural thing to do is to try to move away from the thing you think is so painful. How has that been working for you? Yeah. Me either. Ready to try something new? Something outside the box? Try this: Instead of, Read More

I have spent a lot of time trying to get my life in balance. Right now, I am spending a lot more time alone than I am with people. (Sound much like COVID quarantine?)  The balance is off. But here is what I have learned: Balance is a feeling, not a goal. Things won’t, Read More

Thursday I moved my Mom into a memory care room. It’s in the healthcare center of Sharon Towers, where she has lived the last three years. It was expected. That’s how Alzheimer’s rolls. Slow and steady with fits and spurts along the way. I could choose to make up stories about how Alzheimer’s is, Read More

That thing you are trying to accomplish?  It doesn’t matter. Whether you achieve it or not doesn’t matter. You are not a better person because you accomplish something. It doesn’t mean you are superior in some way. It doesn’t mean you are more valuable or more important. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t go, Read More

Some problems in life are gravity problems.As Bill Burnett of Stanford’s design program calls them, gravity problems are problems you have no control over. Like hurricanes.Or seasons.Or gravity. You can try all you want, but you won’t change them.There is a lot of pushing and head banging about problems that are unmovable forces. Everyone, Read More

I have never thought of myself as a minimalist. I think of myself as wanting the right amount. I want the good quality. I want plenty. But I don’t want a lot to maintain and clean. In my mind I want to be ready to move onto a boat and sail around the world, Read More

This creating a better life thing… I never said it would be easy. Your life is full. You have created everything about it… whether you love it or not. When we think of the life we want, we think about all the good things about it, not what we have to give up. But, Read More

What is left in your life if you don’t buffer? What would the world be like if you never overate, overdrank, overspent, overworked, overexercised, overpeople-pleased or overFacebooked? What would be left? When the big snow storm this winter took out our power, I was a little frightened.No computer? No kindle? No TV? No radio?, Read More

I love it when I hear things that make me look at life in a whole new way. Abraham Hicks does that to me fairly often. Mind blown. We are not in pursuit of joy. We are not seeking joy. Joy is not the end goal. We are joy. Let’s find what’s getting in, Read More