There are no ancients before me, No followers behind: Only the vastness of heaven and earth On this mountain terrace. Though heaven may know the ultimate, Joy or sorrow is our will. Sitting in solitude this morning, reading 365 Tao Daily Meditations, I was struck by the honesty and simplicity of this wisdom. The passage [...]
Julia Cameron believes that an artist date should have a permanent spotin your weekly calendar. I found myself succumbing to a Starbucks-and-Chapters ritual artist date. I don’t think that was the general idea. Then, I stumbled on Keri Smith’s How to be an explorer of the world, on one of those dates. Keri has encouraged [...]
I found myself defending the use of the perfect when I described my coaching business. I felt like the gentleman was suggesting that he wasn’t sure I had the authority to decide what a perfect life was. And that is actually the point. I don’t actually have any right to tell you what is perfect [...]
Most people define success by their financial status, where they live or what other people are saying about them. To enjoy a Perfect Life, you need to define what success means, on your own terms. For example: I know I am being successful… …when my business energizes my life every day. …when I jump out [...]
I am blatantly stealing this story from an e-mail that I received from a Facebook friend. I love the insight. A Lesson Learnt From My Six Year Old by Nicolle Kopping-Pavars On Saturday mornings, my family and I stay in bed just a little bit longer. My two boys crawl into bed with my husband [...]
It seems that there are many instruction manuals to bring you closer to your nirvana. Here are the steps that I took: Define success your way: most people define success by their financial status, where they live or what other people are saying about them. To enjoy a perfect life, you need to define what [...]
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Today–again–I had someone ask me about time management. We ask to manage time, as if we can control it. We are told to think only of the present moment, yet our mind–at least mine does, anyway–keeps walking ahead of us and wondering how much time we have and questioning our management skills. The question is [...]
Being authentic seems to be really hip now. Be who you are. Drop the pretence. Whatever we really are, be it, fearlessly. Whatever we are not, let’s drop the sham, the striving. If we can get rid of the untruth,or half-truth of our words, manners, thinking, life, we will rid ourselves of much garbage, restlessness [...]
“When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.” “Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.” Ralph Waldo Emerson It is no news that there are a lot of people looking for work. Even the people with jobs, [...]
I was struggling today to slog through my list of tasks and I was feeling more and more weight on my shoulders. Then I discovered this prose: …the primal cause of that inconvenient dissatisfaction is the feeling that you are every day leaving undone something which you would like to do, and which, indeed, you [...]
