January 2, 2012. Non-attachment is a term that is thrown around a lot. It has the potential to create all kinds of confusion and misinterpretation. So I’d like to take a stab at defining it. The importance of defining terms has become more and more apparent. I recognized that I’d leave a discussion feeling peaceful …
The Best Year Ever
December 24, 2011 2011 has been the best year of my life! This isn’t the first time I’ve said ‘this is my favorite year ever’. I said it in 2006 when I had emergency spine surgery and then a few months later was diagnosed with breast cancer. That year I learned to let people love …
Showing Up Real
December 22, 2011. Showing up real isn’t as easy as it sounds. In order to be real we need to be present, open, and taking ourselves lightly. When I take fleeting thoughts, emotions and physical sensations seriously, making decisions around how I’m going to act based on them, I can get myself in trouble. My brain …
Fail Often
December 13, 2011 This came in this morning from Seth Godin (really brilliant marketer/entrepreneur). Insulate yourself… from anonymous angry people Expose yourself to art you don’t yet understand Precisely measure the results that are important to you Stay blind to the metrics that don’t matter Fail …
I’m enough
December 4, 2011 The following thoughts were the lead-in to susanna conway’s weekly newsletter. She’s one of my favorite bloggers–a whimsical photographer with interests in a million areas. Anyway, her thoughts made me mindful 🙂 to stop, take inventory, and see how i felt this morning. And today, unlike yesterday (when I was feeling confident …