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We recently potty trained our two year old twins. It was, in short, …interesting. A messy and strangely enlightening experience. It struck me how easy it is to take for granted the commitment, concentration, awareness and surrender that goes into something that most of us don’t even remember learning. And how parallel the process ofRead more

A couple years ago I asked people to take the “No Complaining Challenge” to see how long they could go without complaining. Sounds simple enough. But it isn’t. And I think most of us failed. Take The (Almost) Impossible 7-Day Challenge Complaining, it seems, is one of those habits that’s hard-wired into our being human.Read more

Let’s deconstruct feeling, shall we, as it seems to be at the crux of almost all of our problems. Individually, culturally, and from a societal standpoint. Think about it. Isn’t almost every challenge you’re up against in life in some way a direct correlation to how you feel? About the situation? Or yourself? Or theRead more

How many times do you let the thoughts you think about yourself keep you from saying, “Yes”? It’s so simple, this thing called life. It unfolds naturally in a big “Yes”. Life itself is “Yes”! If it were a “No” you wouldn’t even be here. But we’re so conditioned to saying “No” that most ofRead more

Commitment is an integral part of our lives. We hear it in our relationships: “Ugh. I wish he’d just commit already.” When an athlete is recruited by schools his decision is called a commitment. When we need to remember something important – in the old days, it was the phone number of our high schoolRead more

Perhaps it should be called “the people’s conundrum” because it’s basically human nature. You finally get what you’ve wanted for a long time and, like any new shiny plaything, once you’ve had it for a while, you get bored and want something else. That’s the nature of desire, and that’s also the trap. At oneRead more

Political science professor, Robert E. Kelly’s interview went viral this week. But probably not for the reasons he was hoping. Sure he’s an intelligent expert who knows a lot about South Korean politics. So, naturally, the BBC invited him on as a guest. In this virtually-dominated world, where everything is photo-shopped ”“ from our absRead more

We argue for many things. Our freedom. Our human rights, especially if they seem to be threatened. Affordable healthcare for all. We argue against many things. Donald Trump. His administration. Politicians. Members of Congress who do nothing for their constituents. Bigots and homophobes and all-around haters. We see arguments happening everywhere these days. But theRead more

If you want to get to where you want to go you have to stop protecting yourself from the unknown. Here’s two ways to get there (in addition to last week’s lesson about the unknown). 1) Give Up the Blame Game. The energy that you give to the things you’re blaming is the energy thatRead more

If you want to get to where you want to go you have to stop protecting yourself from the unknown. It’s scary, I know. But that’s just the physics of life itself. It’s so constructed that it asks us to embrace that which we can’t understand fully unless we go into the place that revealsRead more