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

Growing up, I was extreme in setting boundaries. I thought that if someone was mean or rude or thoughtless to me, they didn’t deserve to be my friend. If you laugh at me, you are history. I wasn’t going to allow that to happen to me again. I didn’t have a lot of friends. , Read More

Our brains think about the past. A lot. We think about mistakes we have made and complicated relationships we have had. And learning from all these stories we tell ourselves can be useful. But the real magic is in thinking about the future. What if you believed you could have the future you dream, Read More