A Decluttering Exercise

A Decluttering Exercise

How much of your stuff are you using? It’s amazing how much we hold onto that we don’t need or use. Most of us have boxes of stuff stored away that we haven’t opened for months or years. Thinking about all the excess “stuff” we have...

Get in the Flow

Don’t you just love when you are in the flow? It’s like everything you do just works, you feel connected, focused, content. Well I’ve always thought saying that you are “in the flow” or “in the zone” was a way of phrasing a...

A stroke of luck

This week I took a strange dive into the world of stroke survival. I happened to pick up My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor. After seeing her interview with Oprah, I thought her incredible story about having a stroke at age 37 was something worth reading. If...

An Appreciation of Failure

This week I got great insight on failure at a talk given by Dom Sagolla, co-creator of Twitter and author of 140 characters. He meant to be telling us about success and innovation but what really stood out to me was what he said about failure. He said that as he went...

The simplest way to have more energy.

When I was working on my plan for this year and looking at all the things I wanted to improve in my life I wrote down for the first time ever, get adequate rest. The topic of sleep or lack thereof has come up so frequently in my groups that it has opened my eyes to...

Big Love from Big Sur

A couple of weeks back I went to Big Sur to plan our upcoming retreat with Shauna Lay, my great friend, retreat co-creator, and spiritual teacher. We rented a small cabin on the Big Sur River surrounded by redwood trees. Everywhere I looked there were flowers blooming...