Fear can make you take a perfectly good life and turn it completely upside down. At least it did in my case. When Shauna and I were developing the material for our last retreat we had this brilliant idea to write down all the fears that came up when we thought about...

I finished my thought experiment in the spring of 2015. Heading into the summer I wanted to focus on spending time with my kids and enjoying the summer. I was slowly changing the dialogue I was having with myself. I was okay with not pushing as hard and enjoying my...

When you are in the business of helping people get things done a natural by product is you get a lot of things done. I had this misconception that getting more done, being more productive, and on top of my goals was going to make me happy. And in many ways it did but...

I was driving up to Big Sur a couple weeks ago listening to A Course in Miracles when I got struck over the head by one of the passages. "Fear is always a sign of strain, arising whenever what you want conflicts with what you do."  This strain comes up when you do...

It all started with The Five Minute Journal. For most of this year I've had a daily commitment to write in my journal. I heard about The Five Minute Journal in a Tim Ferriss podcast on Mindfulness and I thought it sounded like it would make my journaling commitment...

Have you ever set a really big goal with absolutely no idea how to go about accomplishing it? Me too. When I was 19 years old I set a goal to run a marathon and I was definitely not a runner. At the time I figured if I ran a marathon I'd lose weight, build my...

Greetings from Cafe Josephine in Paris. It’s a chilly morning and I’m perched on the second floor of a lovely patisserie and bakery around the corner from the apartment that we rented for our 5 day stay here. I’m currently looking down over two counters - one full of...