I’ve written quite a bit on here about meditation because it’s been so beneficial for me. I know that some people hate the idea of sitting down for a few minutes and focusing on what’s going on in the moment instead of moving, planning, ruminating, etc. so they don’t even try meditation. The thing is, READ MORE
Category: Habits
I Don’t Need To Apologize For Living My Life
For awhile, I don’t know exactly how long, I’ve blogged twice per week, with them being published Tuesday and Thursday, but not this week. This week I’m writing one post, and it’s not being published until Thursday. No apologize for this “lapse”. I’m living my life. Monday was our daughter’s bat mitzvah. It was a READ MORE
What Will You Stand For?
There’s a line in the musical Hamilton when Alexander Hamilton asks Aaron Burr, “If you stand for nothing, what will you fall for?” I was reminded of this line the other day while flipping through my copy of Brendon Burchard’s book The Charge, which came out almost a decade ago. In the second chapter, Burchard READ MORE
Put in the Effort Now For Compounded Results
A few months ago I wrote about “short-term fixes” and that sometimes you need to patch something quickly to stop water or blood or anger from spilling out of your toilet, body, or relationship. The post ended with: Short-term fixes are meant to be a stop-gap measure, not a long-term solution. If the toilet continues READ MORE
Sometimes You Just Have to Start
As I write this, I’m sitting on my back deck, feeling a cool breeze against my skin, listening to birds chirping in the trees, our air conditioning droning, and cars in the distance. I can see my dog resting on the patio and I’m surrounded by a variety of trees growing in our yard. When READ MORE
For Your Listening Pleasure – Podcasts I’m Listening To
As we head into long weekends in Canada and the U.S. I thought I’d share some ideas for podcasts you may want to check out: Becoming Better – this is by writer Chris Bailey (The Productivity Project and Hyperfocus: How to Be More Productive in a World of Distraction) and his wife Ardyn. While you may not be READ MORE
Half-Assed Journaling
I’ve long been an advocate of journaling and have written about it here several times, but I had a realization related to this last week (actually several, but I’ll stick to this one for today). I’ve had a sense for awhile that I’ve been mostly doing half-assed journaling. I’ll write down what happened during my READ MORE
Some Times We Create Stuff That Sucks
In the past couple of weeks I’ve started two blog posts that I haven’t published. One, I wrote the whole thing and left it to rot in the drafts folder, while the other I started, but had no idea where I was going to go with it so it’s taken up residence next to the READ MORE
Would You Be Your Friend?
I was doing a meditation the other day and the person guiding that session was talking about negative self-talk. I’ve frequently heard people pose the question “Would you say the stuff you say to yourself to a friend or family member you really care about?” If the answer is “no” then don’t say those things READ MORE
What Am I Doing to Try to Live as The Person I Want to Be?
The team that I’m a part of at the university has certain outcomes that we are trying to meet and several that we try to help instructors meet. We want to make sure that our workshops and short-course offerings provide opportunities to achieve or at least make progress on those outcomes. As part of this, READ MORE
