I would like to share my relationship story. My partner (we’ll call her M) and I met at a retreat and quickly became attached at the hip. We dated for three months, then I moved in. A therapist once commented that we got our relationship equation backwards – ” you two had started relating beforeContinue reading “Taking Action – in love and relating”
Category Archives: Wisdom
What’s the frequency?
They say “there is always someone better than you at a given task or skill”. I like to counter it with a different viewpoint – that we all have a radio frequency that is unique to you and me and no one else. Like a radio dial, each of us can tune into a stationContinue reading “What’s the frequency?”
It’s time
“The ignorant work for their own profit, Arjuna; the wise work for the welfare of the world, without thought for themselves. ” Bhagavad Gita Why demonstrate truth, when the tactic of bullying is so much more effective. Why acknowledge the reality in front of us, when the ego’s need to be “right” isContinue reading “It’s time”
The Simple Things
OK, so I have been talking a great deal about taking action in your life and world around you. I’m clearly trying to get people motivated to be “in the world” and not just casual observers of it all. Well today I’m writing from a different space. I’m writing about how to slow things down.Continue reading “The Simple Things”
Structure
What can you hold? Not physically, but emotionally and from a place of the higher self. Can you keep your life processes moving forward (i.e. work, relationships, exercise, etc.)? Or do you find that things always seem to fall apart after awhile? In the book A Language for Mapping Consciousness, the term structure refers to Continue reading “Structure”
The first steps of January
With so much potential, January rolls into my consciousness full with aspiration and intention. What I do this month sets the tone for the rest of the year. So now is the time to think and feel deeply into what’s next. Here are some questions before me: What do I want the most for meContinue reading “The first steps of January”
50 years
This morning, my 18,250 morning in this lifetime, I can feel a sense of ease and gratitude for what I have experienced. Not to overthink being 50 or say too much, but rather a sense of who I am and the road that I’ve traveled to be here today. My love for my son, NateContinue reading “50 years”
An Article on Authoritarianism
I have four questions listed below. Take this very brief quiz. Please tell me which one you think is more important for a child to have: independence or respect for elders? Please tell me which one you think is more important for a child to have: obedience or self-reliance? Please tell me which one youContinue reading “An Article on Authoritarianism”
Taking Action – planning and coaching
What stop’s you from moving forward? This was the question posed to me by life coach Angela Watson Robertson recently in a phone call. A great question for me to ponder as I ponder my directions for the new year. Getting stuck or experiencing inertia, happens to all of us from time to time. HereContinue reading “Taking Action – planning and coaching”
Action
“Abandon all attachment to the results of action and attain supreme peace”…. the Bhagavad Gita My last couple of posts have been about the self and how taking action can help us make shifts in our lives. I encourage people to take action. But it is important not to make outcomes the the focus ofContinue reading “Action”
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