Tag: personal-growth
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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…
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Mindfulness in the Digital Age: Finding Balance, Not Escape
Digital communication is here to stay. Phones, tablets, and laptops keep us connected, informed, and often inspired. Yet they also compete for our most precious resource: attention. If mindfulness is the art of being present, what does that mean in a world built to distract? What the Research Says Studies increasingly show that how we…
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Before The Wake-Up Call: The Habits Guiding Your Next Decade
“The habits we don’t see are the ones that lead us.” — Thich Nhat Hanh “Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.” -Brene Brown If you want a glimpse of your next ten years, take a careful look at the last ten. The patterns you…
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Painted Tigers: Meeting Fear with Mindfulness
When Joseph Goldstein speaks about fear, he often invokes a vivid image from Zen lore, the painted tiger. A monk once painted a tiger so lifelike that when he stepped back to admire his work, he became terrified of it. Goldstein says, “We paint pictures in our minds of what will be, and then become…
