I'm on a seemingly never-ending quest to get to know, better understand, and improve myself, and to that end, I've put myself through a variety of programs, read books on a range of subjects, and taken a motley of classes. One thing keeps coming up, no matter how disparate the...

We live in a *power* time. There's a lot of encouragement and momentum *forward*. Better. More. Bigger. Another. New. Different. Change...

When you talk with children, it's tempting to ask them what they want to be when they grow up:

The search for stuff *out there* is relentless. You read to find answers, ask your friends for their opinions, take classes to learn more, research online, call in a professional. You look far and wide. Most opportunities for change and growth, after all, begin with an external...

...it's what you *don't* do.

Think of all the diets out there that start "tomorrow", the friends that will be called "next week", the vacations/businesses/inventions that will be embarked upon "someday". Sister worlds and...

In Judith Lasater's book Living Your Yoga, she tells a story about a villager living in a small house with his wife, mother-in-law, six children, a cow, and some chickens. Things were a little snug and the villager was losing his mind with all of the chaos and noise. So he went to the village rabbi to

Overwhelm is the difference between what you expect out of yourself and what you actually do. It's that disagreement between what you wanted, and what came to be. The static between reality and fantasy. Making it, methinks, pretty important to sort out your expectations.

You have to meet yourself where you're at. And since *pure* stillness seems to be beyond my capacity, and the capacity of most humans I know, I have shifted my focus: I want to live one footstep from stillness.

Whatever is in close proximity to you carries power. We all appreciate a certain amount of ease and convenience in our lives, which is why this is fundamentally true. It's handy when your kids play with the kids next door; it's tempting to grab for whatever's in the pantry when you get

Summer is slowly leaning towards fall, school is already in full swing, the days are growing noticeably shorter, and I am settling in to habits and routines that I put in motion weeks and, in some cases, months ago in a deeper, more meaningful way. Even more so than New Year's, the

Auto-pilot is something you, like most of us, are probably good at. Like, really good at. You usually eat these kinds of foods, get about that much sleep, have those kinds of conversations with the family and friends that have surrounded you for a while. You don't have to think about

Your body has a way of showing you exactly what is going on with you...if you listen to your life.

Sometimes we come at self-connection and self-improvement with our minds and forget the messages our bodies hold for us. Some people need to slow down and pay closer attention, some

We are information people. We know more, research quickly, can gather data or videos or headlines in mere seconds. We are inundated with messages we don’t even want. We are overstimulated by facts and news and marketing.

{And so are you.}

They say, “practice makes perfect.” Whatever you’re practicing, you’re getting good at, if not perfect. And that could be playing the piano or poker or growing gorgeous tomatoes or shooting