Posted in change, creativity, adventure, choices, passion, commitment, courage on March 18, 2012 | 1 Comment »
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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Posted in celebration, change, opportunity on March 17, 2012 | 5 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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“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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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 [...]
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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Posted in adventure, change, nature on February 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“There is nothing still. Life is never still. No plant, no animal, no river. Can we think of Nature as a metaphor and keep ourselves constantly evolving?” ~ Anil Gupta Over the past few stressful weeks, I’ve found myself seeking stillness, seeking an end to all whirring in my mind. It’s been hard to make [...]
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Posted in change, fear on February 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This past week, I started to ask for more practical advice on making my leap – different financial planning tools (personal and professional), health insurance, etc. These items and the options they present take a good deal of planning and preparation and I wanted to start to collect as much data as I can from [...]
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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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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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Posted in change, choices, clarity, inspiration, invention, writing on December 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My year of writing about new beginnings is winding down. A few more days and my new writing adventure for 2012 will take shape. I’ll reveal more details about this shortly. For the moment, I’m thinking about endings. The end of 2011. The end of spending too much time on things that aren’t adding to [...]
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