The single biggest benefit meditation has given me is to become more resilient, the ability to let go ... and get back to what matters faster.

Mother Teresa said once that the worst disease she has seen,

In his Meditations, Marcus Aurelius wrote that "the happiness of your life depends upon the

Goal setting is all the rage, daily, weekly, yearly goals.

I used to set goals, very specific, quantifiable goals like,

Are you a dismissive listener, always trying to fix someone instead of showing empathy? Dismissive listeners use phrases like:

‘A Brave and Startling Truth’ by Maya Angelou.

If you should sit and look back over this week, and you should, what would you notice?

In Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, he opens with a list of all the people who he admires and had a good influence in his life. His adoptive father

Keeping Quiet

Now we will count to twelve
and we will all keep still

Yesterday I was sitting at my desk and felt the anxiety rise up in my stomach. It slowly emerged as if from a lake and then proceeded to twist, turn and tangle itself tightly into my gut.

If you are like me when you have an idea for a new product, artwork, business, you want to build it now and launch it yesterday.

We tell ourselves one of two stories.

Words matter. I'm a writer, so words are my thing.

Words are metaphors and images, they convey meaning. They give us a vision and an image of what to strive and aim for.

AMOR FATI

Amor Fati is a latin phrase used by the stoic philosophers to describe and important concept,

Creativity is a crushing chore and a glorious mystery. The work wants

Communication has only happened when the other person has understood what you have said.

A good artist has an identifiable mark.

Van Gogh had a very specific mark.
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