A 365 Day Exploration of What Inspires The Premise One of my favorite books of recent memory is Stumbling on Happiness. Renowned Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert reveals the latest in scientific research in psychology, cognitive neuroscience and several other fields with large words, to help you and I understand why we aren’t happy and what…
Welcome to Assignment Number One in “How to Write your Own Owners Instruction Manual” This week: How do I turn myself on? Last week I wrote about creating your own Owners Manual and it struck a chord with many of you out there. For the next few blog posts I’m going to giving assignments…
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…
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…
When you look at this image do you see a glass half empty or a glass half full? I really have no patience for talk about positive thinking. I know it to be like my frequent visits to my hair dresser to eliminate my graying hair. You can apply whatever topical agent you like, but…
Okay, that isn’t the subtitle of the book, it is actually Or, Why I spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun, but it is what I would call it. I loved this book when I saw it on the shelf. I…
Who is the Writer? In 1986 Byron Katie (or Katie as she is most often called) was 43, living in a half way house, and sleeping on a floor because she didn’t feel worthy of the bed. She was in a half way house for women with eating disorders and had been sent to the…
