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Leap: The Great Remaking of Us

Posted in change, creativity, dreams on May 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as in being able to remake ourselves.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi Yesterday someone asked me what situation in the world bothers me the most. My answer rose up immediately – I hate to see people give up on their dreams [...]

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Leap: Google Teaches Us How to Create World Peace and Other Circumstances of Goodness

Posted in change, charity, community, creativity, peace on May 2, 2012 | 2 Comments »

The New York Times ran a story over the weekend about Google’s efforts to increase mindfulness among its employees. The story, Ok, Google, Take a Deep Breath, featured Chade-Meng Tan (Meng), an engineer at Google and the creator of the Google team course, “Search Inside Yourself.” I clicked the link to watch a sample class [...]

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Leap: Change in the Air, and My Email In-box

Posted in change, creativity on April 26, 2012 | 1 Comment »

Universe, I hear you. The theme of change continues to show up in my life on a very regular basis. And my regular I mean hourly. My Monday post, We Have to Let Go to Be Free, was about the acceptance and release of emotions to generate transformation. At its essence, this idea gets at [...]

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Leap: My Oyster Moment of Irritation and Yoga as a Balm

Posted in change, nature, opportunity on April 17, 2012 | 2 Comments »

I get irritated. A lot. Litter. Cigarette smoking. People who discount other people. Arrogance. Subway crushers during rush hour who apologize for pushing you but push anyway. This past weekend, someone who rubs me the wrong way a bit too often said something really insightful that keeps ringing in my mind. “An oyster makes a [...]

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Leap: The Blessing of Suffering

Posted in change, choices on April 4, 2012 | 4 Comments »

Why can’t all of life be easy? We go to yoga classes to find ease. We seek out ways to laugh more, do meaningful work, to blow off steam. We wish every day could be easier for everyone. But anyone who’s been around on this planet long enough has experienced pain in one form or [...]

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Leap: Stop Buying Ice and Start Living

Posted in adventure, change, choices, commitment, courage, creativity, passion on March 18, 2012 | 2 Comments »

I recently had a small group of people over to my house. As I was drafting up my grocery / to-do list, I wrote down “buy ice.” And then I started laughing. I have a freezer. I have ice cube trays. Did I really need to buy ice? No – I had everything I needed. [...]

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Leap: What I’m Thinking About on My Birthday – Kiefer Sutherland and Gandhi

Posted in celebration, change, opportunity on March 17, 2012 | 9 Comments »

“You have to work on opportunity’s watch and not your own.” ~ Keifer Sutherland “The difference between what we are doing and what we are capable of doing would solve most of the world’s problems.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi 36 today, and what’s on my mind? Kiefer Sutherland and Gandhi. Odd mix, you say? Perhaps, but [...]

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Leap: Learn to Float

Posted in change, choices, faith, fear on March 7, 2012 | 5 Comments »

“In my 61 years of life, I have begun to think that man makes his own stress. When he his stress-free, he goes out and finds some. It is often difficult to live in the moment. There is no stress in being; no tug, no pull, no forward, no back. Floating is so much harder [...]

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Leap: How to Start a Transformation

Posted in change on February 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

“Transformation literally means going beyond your form.” ~ Wayne Dyer We talk about transformation and change all the time. We want our luck to change; we want other people to be the way we want them to be; we want to lose weight; we want to get a job we love that doesn’t even feel [...]

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Leap: Ask, and Allow – More Life Advice from Author, Anne Lamott

Posted in change, family, gratitude, religion, writing on February 21, 2012 | 2 Comments »

Anne Lamott recently wrote a very personal piece in Reader’s Digest about the birth of her grandson to her teenage son and his girlfriend. Lamott is my favorite author because of her ability to be so raw, honest, and hilarious all in the same breath. Her voice is so unique and she doles out advice [...]

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