The answer to everything you are up against in life is. . . well. . . you. Or rather, you hold the answers to all your questions. But in order to access them, you have to ask different questions that require you to express your needs. Why is this so hard for us? Why areRead more
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How? Commitment. You don’t get what you wish for in life. You get what you believe. And sometimes, our beliefs need a little bit of encouragement. For example, you believe you can do something (write a play, audition for a show, ask someone out on a date) but you also have doubts. You fast-forward toRead more
Ever notice that once you really start committing to something, it almost seems as if everything in the universe is conspiring against you to make that thing happen? Eeeeeeek! A lot of times, people stop. They give up. They see it as a “sign” that it’s not the right time. Or it’s not supposed toRead more
Life itself is an affirmative act. Everywhere in nature you see the inclination, the will to life. Flowers bloom. Birds dispense plant seeds so that they continue to propagate and grow. Weeds are so committed, they poke out from cement sidewalks, where life seems inhospitable. A spider spins its web in places that are certainRead more
EVERYTHING you want is in the Unknown. We’re not taught the physics of creativity so we listen to the pseudo-self (our Ego) — which tells us that the unknown is a scary and unsafe place to be. And it tries to prevent us from going there. But a deeper part of us craves the unknown,Read more
When I was a kid growing up in Indiana, I’d spend my summers collecting live bugs. There were acres of woods behind my house and empty fields full of more insects than you could imagine. Much to my mom’s disapproval, I’d grab empty canning jars from our basement, poke holes in the lids and goRead more
Life is designed to bring up your stuff. That’s the way it’s supposed to be. We can avoid it. We can deny it. We can ignore it. But eventually, we see that to get to where we want to go, we have to work through the stuff we’d rather step around. There’s never around. There’sRead more
Not unlike the DreamWorks movie, if you want to make your Dragon work for you, you first have to know you have one. Once upon a time, we were given a travel companion to help us navigate through life’s travails. As we grew, so did our Ego Dragon: by processing information, evaluating situations, making judgmentsRead more
The experiences we are looking for in the world seem to show up out there. They might be in the form of getting a girlfriend or booking a job or going on a cruise or getting an agent. But what they really represent is the feeling you are looking for (and actually already possess) insideRead more
Judith Lasater, a wonderful yoga teacher and writer, tells a story about “selling the goat.” It’s a metaphor for taking a step back and gaining perspective on your life when a situation is troublesome or stressful and it’d be helpful to see it with a new pair of eyes. She suggests, “selling the goat” –Read more