So it was my birthday in mid December and my gift to me (because quite frankly at my age, who better knows what I want than I?) was a day built around creativity. At this point in December I know I’m not the only one who feels like their tank is running on fumes. The…
What drains you? What nourishes you? I’ve recently felt that familiar nagging feeling that the boat of my life is sailing away from the dock and I’m not on it. Or if I am, I’m somewhere in the hold doing the grunt job and not on the deck enjoying the view. I know I just…
Energy. Just typing it makes me think that either you will assume this is an article on global warming and how we use energy, or it is some sort of chakra west coast infected philosophy coming into play. It is neither. Energy is something we are all putting out all the time. Energy is the…
Deja vu all over again. As I’m heading into production week again for a show I see history repeating itself. You see, it seems I’ve lived long enough and been lucky/hard working enough to have figured out a number of things about life, me and how to feel good and be mostly happy. There is…
“My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items I notice shape my mind.” Pioneering psychologist William James I am struck by his focus on MY and I. Not ‘they’ or ‘it’ or ‘them’. My experience of good or bad, happy or sad is dictated by what I attend to. What I…
If you could write your own instruction manual, what would you write? What would you put in the book that described the care and feeding of you? When I was lucky enough to be away last week at a spa to celebrate my mother turning 70, I began to think about this. There is something…
Do you do this? When I’m at the restaurant and scope out the desserts before I order my main. I just don’t want to miss out on something really good because I’m too full. If I say yes to the calamari and the surf and turf and the beautiful soup of the day, that tiramisu…
First of all, let me start out by saying I believe the whole green thumbs thing is bunk. I think you either love your plants or you don’t. I also think they know. I have never killed a plant from love, but I have killed it from indifference. Perhaps indifference ends up being more painful…
Five keys to successfully goal setting. Get what you want, discover why you failed in the past or apply these keys as you create new goals in your life. I figured this out during a recent challenge I set for myself. Every cheesy saying you can think of is in my head right now. A…
On day 12 of a 30 day challenge of Bikram yoga, it isn’t so much the 102 F heat, or the rule you can only breath through your nose, or even that you can’t have any water until after the warm up poses are done that is most difficult. It is managing your monkey mind…
