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What would increase your well-being and satisfaction? More health? More wealth? Better relationships? Whether you want fame and fortune or just peace and quiet, it all starts with one question: Are yo...
Sometimes the search for happiness involves touchy-feely discussions, sometime techy talks. This week we are getting a bit scientific and have more to say about everyone’s favorite molecule: dopamine....
The epistemological debate regarding free will is out of my philosophical wheelhouse; I will leave it to the theologians. But I do know this:
While we don’t choose our genetics or the circumstances of ...
Journitation is a portmanteau I created to highlight the importance of combining journaling and meditation. I believe that the whole of this practice is greater than the sum of its parts.
Journaling
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Man is weak, and community is therefore indispensable.
- C.G. Jung
Our connections to people evolve, as do we.
When you graduated from your secondary (high school) education, what you thought were “forev...
I have three nice pens.
One is a Cross that my mother gave me many years ago. I told her, “I’ll write my Ph.D. dissertation with this.” (I did, when I was 29). Another is a Waterman Expert, still in it...
I would never think to tell anyone how to live; that is a concept as individual as you and as malleable as water.
What I do have is a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very l...
Life is a series of unpredictable events. We bounce along between triumph and tragedy, spend too much time in survival mode, and never get a clear read on exactly why we are here. Sometimes our contin...
Everyone has a past.
Every past has some moments of triumph and some embarrassments, some great decisions and some regrets. As I have previously written, It is important to remember the people, places,...
Much has been said about authenticity: why we should be real, brah—regarding who we are and what we want. But pull back the curtain, and you find that we are each a jumble of disjointed foibles: inacc...
Loss comes in many forms - betrayal, abandonment, death - and from many sources: the end of a decades-long relationship, the death of parents, the loss of a career, the loss of a beloved geographic ar...
I know people who “got old” in their 30s. I have friends who in their mid 80s still carry hundred-pound stacks of bricks to do masonry work, because it interests them and they’re good at it. If you fo...
A Framework for Making Good Decisions
I see it all the time. People work hard to achieve their dreams, but can’t seem to get out of their own way. I’m as guilty as anyone; it is a very human tendency...
Here I am
On the road again
There I am
Up on the stage
Here I go
Playin’ star again
There I go
Turn the page
- Bob Seeger, Turn The Page
It is a perfect spring night outside the venue, slight cool breeze and t...
This is a time of tremendous, life-altering transition for many people in my immediate circle. Some are family, some are friends; I love them all deeply. Some are dealing with the end of long-term rel...
