Tag: personal-growth
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From Moral Righteousness to the Heart
Larry and I have been watching The Traitors together in the evenings. We know it’s a game. We know deception is built into the rules. No one is violating anything. And yet, as we sit there on the couch, I can feel it happen in my body before it ever reaches my mind. Tightening. Judgment.…
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Wishing you a Very Happy New Year.
There’s something meaningful about the New Year beginning in winter. At a time when we’re often pushed to improve, hustle, and fix ourselves, nature is doing the opposite. Trees let go of their leaves. Growth slows. The land rests. Nothing is rushing toward spring. Winter doesn’t skip ahead. It pauses, reflects, and restores first. As…
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Dopamine, Desire, and the Middle Way
We learn this pattern early. The holidays make it obvious. We stretch anticipation on purpose, counting days, hiding gifts, building suspense. Excitement lives in the waiting. There is warmth in that. But there is also a lesson absorbed quietly: happiness is something that comes later.
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Have We Busied Ourselves Out of a Life?
We wear busyness as proof of importance. We confuse full calendars with full lives. Somewhere along the way, being busy stopped being a temporary condition and became an identity.
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What is a thought?
Given our thoughts become actions, it seems skillful to co sided our thought life – beginning with a simple question. What is a thought?
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The Wisdom of Play
Do we have it backwards? Perhaps we missed the whole point? Our culture and industry inherited the framework of a six-day work cycle directly from religion, where God labored for six days and rested on the seventh. Without the Jewish Sabbath, which we now recognize on Saturday, we might very well be working six days…
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The Flip Side of Life
What happens when we stop replaying the same old tune Before streaming and playlists, we bought music on 45-rpm vinyl singles. The hit song lived on the A-side. The B-side wasn’t something you stumbled into. It didn’t play automatically.You had to physically flip the record over to hear it.And most of us rarely bothered. Yet…
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What if Beatles sang ‘Let it Go’ instead of ‘Let it Be’?
How different would the world feel if the Beatles had written Let It Go instead of Let It Be? Picture it: Paul at the piano, eyes closed, singing earnestly,“Let it go, let it go, let it go…” The song still tops the charts, but the message shifts.A generation grows up believing peace requires action, that…
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Get On with Actual Living: A Mindful Reframing of Goal Setting
Happy Monday, friends — We’re still a couple of months away from goal-setting season, but this topic has been on my mind for a while. I’m also hearing more people talk about their “future selves” across different platforms, so now feels like the right time. Read it now or save it for January—either way, you…
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Zen and the Art of the Scroll
Slow Your Scroll – Wise Social Media Habits You open Instagram for inspiration. Just a quick look, you tell yourself. Ten minutes later, you’ve compared your writing, your breakfast, and possibly your entire life to three strangers with better headlines and a cat who somehow has better engagement. You’re not angry at yourself, just amused…
