Image via Wikipedia Change requires determination, sometimes like that of a competitive endurance athlete. An article in National Geographic Adventure on how to get through adversity, tells the story of how Rosie Stancer attempted to be the first woman to travel solo to the North Pole. She didn’t achieve her goal, but she did survive—minus [...]
Image via Wikipedia Playing together It seems like most of us are either looking for a relationship or looking at improving one. We’re constantly getting and giving advice around relationships. With the popularity of reality shows fueling the hype about “the one,” it’s amazing any of us have relationships that work. I’m not here to [...]
Image by Storm Crypt via Flickr Are you happy? Our culture focuses on doing and having—and for many people, that’s not working anymore. You were told that working hard to acquire things would generate happiness. Where did it get you? The thread of connection The natural process of maturing takes you through the continuum of [...]
Image via Wikipedia There is not an institution that needs change more than our healthcare industry. Deepak Chopra a physician by training writes a manifesto on how holistic health can be the agent of change, in fact it is. He quotes statistics from several diverse sources that support what many of us know – we [...]
What does every revolution need? It needs leaders to ignite within us the passion that is waiting to explode. It needs people who connect what we know and feel to get us to take action that is more than about ourselves. Paul Hawken‘s Commencement Address for the Class of 2009 at the University of Portland [...]
I bet you’ve never thought about using a particular strategy about untying a knot, you just do it. But, let’s take a look at how you would go about this in a successful manner and think how it may be a metaphor for other things. You discover a stubborn knot in some rope that you [...]
What are your values? What are you willing to stand for, fight for and perhaps, die for? Do you travel through life letting it happen? Or, is there a code you live by? You may not even be aware of this code. Yet, when you need to make a tough decision, who or what do [...]
How to Make the Powerful Easy You have an instinctual ability to transform your life. Buried in your unconscious-Carl Jung would call it your Collective Unconscious-you have an urge to grow. With this urge comes a deep skill set analogous to your instinctual capacity to survive. When you get out of your way, or out [...]
If it’s going to be work to make a change, you want it to last. How you do get the most out of your efforts? I suggest going deep-beyond alleviating the immediate symptoms that you want to change-to maximize your efforts. Go for what is causing the repeating problems. We aren’t trained to use a [...]