If I told you that I feel different on a molecular level, perhaps that would explain why I haven’t posted to FB really since I returned from my Vision Quest a few days ago. I am stuck in ceremonial mind. From the first day I entered my Quest at the Joshua Tree Retreat Centre at…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“Please Sir, Can I have some more?” This was notoriously asked by the poor orphan in Dickens “Oliver”. His life was changed forever when he uttered that phrase. This month I’m intending to do the same thing. I’m going to ask for more of what I want. I’m going to call it the Oliver Way,…
