Think about how often you hear yourself or people around you say things like: “I’m trying to…” “I’ll give it a try.” or “Just try” As Yoda said in Star Wars: “Do. Or do not. There is no try.” Try is what I call a “stuck” verb. It gets us nowhere, and actually permits a [...]
Increasingly these days, we wake up to a lot of news about how things are not right with the world. As it happens, there is also a lot of good going on, but in these days of instant global communications and social media, it sometimes seems like the number and significance of bad outweighs the [...]
It’s official: it’s March 20th and Spring has sprung! And while the grass may not have “riz” yet where you live, an increase in warmth, sunshine and rebirth of all kinds is just around the corner. Here in New Jersey, that’s really something to celebrate! I love this time of year for the sense of [...]
Let’s face it: when you’re snowed in by eight foot foot “drifts” that look more like mountains, and/or below zero temperatures, it can be hard to remember to focus on practicing the sort of life-enhancing practices I teach here in my blog. The stress of a months-long disruption of normal activities has been like one [...]
