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Leap: A Big Thank You to the Gutsy Female Entrepreneurs of Rent the Runway, Corporate Idiocy, and a Mitt Romney Joke Told in Poor Taste

Posted in business, corporation, creativity, dreams, economy, grateful, gratitude, thankful on May 4, 2012 | 2 Comments »

Corporate executive who say stupid things are making it easy for us to set sail on our own venture adventures. While I am angered by their behavior, I’m thankful for our ability to turn the situation around and invest in our own business ideas. When things are falling apart (corporate culture), pieces are often falling [...]

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Leap: Thank You Notes Volume 4 – Thanks, Universe, for Preserving My Ignorance

Posted in grateful, gratitude, thankful on April 6, 2012 | 2 Comments »

Here’s my one big thank you for the week: thank goodness we don’t know how difficult some things are until we’ve already committed to seeing them through. And I’m glad about that. I felt the same way about college and graduate school, about managing Broadway shows, about changing careers. If I had an inkling about [...]

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Leap: Thank You Notes, Volume 3

Posted in gratitude, thankful on March 30, 2012 | 3 Comments »

The latest installment of my thank you notes in a collective format. I’ve also begun to send out my individual thank you notes – whenever possible, I try to send out these notes recorded here on this blog to the actual person, company, or organization they’re dedicated to. I’ll let you know if I hear [...]

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Leap: Thank You Notes a la Jimmy Fallon

Posted in comedy, gratitude, humor, thankful on March 9, 2012 | 7 Comments »

Another leap I’m attempting to make this year is to focus on humor writing. Comedy writing is tough for me – witness my crash and burn sketch writing class at UCB in which only 2 of my 8 sketches were laughable. One of those funny sketches is still kicking around in my head, and it [...]

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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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Leap: The blessing of the recession

Posted in change, economy, gratitude, hope on January 30, 2012 | 4 Comments »

“Lasting change happens when people see for themselves that a different way of life is more fulfilling than their present one.” ~ Eknath Easwaran I’ve been thinking a lot about lasting change. We’re much more often faced with changes that happen in fits and spurts, drop by drop. On occasion we get a chance to [...]

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Leap: A Graceful Exit is Always Possible

Posted in career, change, grateful, gratitude on January 2, 2012 | 6 Comments »

In any transition, we often focus on the end goal. In my year of leaping into full-time entrepreneurship, I’ve spent a lot of time planning how to successfully complete that transition: personal financial planning, long-term strategy for Compass Yoga, funding, and partnerships that will grow our programming. But there’s an often overlooked detail when we [...]

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Beginning: Let Your Gratitude Show

Posted in good fortune, grateful, gratitude, thankful, thanksgiving on November 24, 2011 | 2 Comments »

I love Thanksgiving. It’s my favorite holiday – no presents like Christmas, no question about plans like New Year’s. Just good food, friends, family, and napping. At least for the lucky among us. And if we are lucky enough to have these circumstances on this day, then we spend a lot of time being grateful [...]

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Beginning: The Other 1% – Our Veterans

Posted in government, grateful, gratitude, health, yoga on November 11, 2011 | 2 Comments »

There’s been a lot of talk in the media recently about the privileged 1%. Today we honor another 1%: our veterans, the brave men and women who put on their uniforms every day and make our freedom their mission. At a veterans health conference in June, I was shocked to learn that only 1% of [...]

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Beginning: Curative Energy

Posted in celebration, change, grateful, gratitude, growth, yoga, tagged on August 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

“You can channel your pain into helping others and spread a tide of curative energy throughout the world.” ~ Daily Good I wrote earlier this week about the desire to be grateful for my hardships, to become so thankful for them that I would never think of trading them for any different history. Shortly after [...]

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