“The obstacle is the path.” ~ Zen proverb On Sunday I was thumbing through the new prAna catalog and found this proverb. Obstacles tend to be things we want to jump over, crawl through, duck under, go around, or blow up into miniscule pieces. And with good reason – they prevent us from doing exactly [...]
Archive for November, 2011
Beginning: Move Toward the Obstacles
Posted in adventure, career, celebration, change, creative process, creativity, yoga on November 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Beginning: What It Really Means to Invent
Posted in business, medical, medicine, meditation, yoga on November 29, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Estimates now show that there are 70,000+ yoga teachers in North America. 70,000 people do exactly what I do. We all have roughly the same basic level of training and seek to do the same type of work. On its own, a statistic like that could be enough to scare me into hiding. But here’s [...]
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Beginning: How to Make a Living While Making a Life
Posted in choices, decision-making, money, time on November 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
For a long time I’ve defined that I make a living as a product developer and I make a life by writing and teaching yoga. My dual-life can get exhausting, and more than that, I think it’s wasteful. And I hate waste of any kind. But this dual-life, in the short-term, is the safe road. [...]
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Beginning: Decide to Marry the Night
Posted in commitment, dreams, inspiration, music, television on November 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it! / Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” ~ Goethe Late on Thanksgiving night everyone had gone home and my parents were fast asleep. Phineas was cuddled up next to me snoozing, and I was pecking away on my laptop to draft a [...]
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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: My Features on Sour to Sweet, a Blog Focused on People Defying the Great Recession
Posted in blog, business, celebration, economy, hope, inspiration, writing, yoga on November 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Lauren Murray is striking back against the idea that our economy has ruined all of us. Her blog, Sour to Sweet, is “my attempt to counterbalance the doom and gloom that’s already out there. Let’s celebrate the successes that, seemingly against all odds, have occurred despite the economic downturn.” Lauren reached out to me a [...]
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Beginning: Advice for Occupy Wall Street Protesters – You Need to Occupy the Banks’ Balance Sheets and Strategic Plans
Posted in business, change, money, New York City on November 22, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I knew this would happen. The company that owns Zuccotti Park also owns the office building where I work. On Friday, about 40 protestors made their way to our front door. I’m not sure if they know the company I work for is housed there. Once they make the connection, I’m sure the protestors will [...]
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Beginning: Frank Lloyd Wright – A Reinventor For The Ages
Posted in art, creativity, design, discovery on November 21, 2011 | 2 Comments »
“Love is the virtue of the heart. Sincerity the virtue of the mind. Courage the virtue of the spirit. Decision the virtue of the will.” ~ The Organic Commandments by Frank Lloyd Wright During a recent business trip to Phoenix, I made a quick stop at Taliesin West – one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most [...]
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Beginning: Now’s the Time to Begin – Recession Be Damned
Posted in business, economy, financing on November 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Dear 38% of 18-34 year old American would-be entrepreneurs who are letting the recession get in the way of your start-up plans, I hear you! It’s scary to take your superficially safe day job and chuck it out the window in favor of your dream. If you’re dream fails, does that mean you fail? And [...]
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Beginning: Bill Cosby, David Sedaris, and the Art of the Delivery
Posted in comedy, writing on November 17, 2011 | 2 Comments »
It takes a long time to fly from Orlando to Phoenix. So long that on a recent business trip I had the time to read an entire book from beginning to end in one sitting. After seeing Bill Cosby on David Letterman, I ran out to get the book in prep for my cross-country trek. [...]
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