Damn! What a great word. Wished I had coined it. Kudos to Jeffrey Luger though. He's the mastermind behind the book of the same name. Luger's point is that the world around us filled with examples of things that appear simple and are enormously complex in their ...
Working for yourself presents unexpected challenges. Being on my own has taught me the value of routines in my daily life. Without the imposed routines that come from a corporate job that starts at 8 or 9am every day, you find yourself pondering when to take showers, exercise, meditation etc., in addition to whatever ...
George Leonard has a book called "Mastery" that is essentially about living your life as a practice, and in it he talks about the nature of developing mastery in any chosen endeavor. According to Leonard, you develop in fits and spurts characterized by periods of apparent no-growth or "plateaus" as Leonard calls ...
You heard me! It's big, it's round, it's talked about, it's yours. So learn to love it. Would like to say this is a quote from "Embracing Your Big Fat Ass: An Owner's Manual," but I haven't read it ... yet. Actually I probably won't but it ...
From my bed I can see the Chrysler building through my bedroom window. What a magnificent structure. It seems to blend the best of the old with the new and I'm struck by the paucity of words that I have to describe the beauty of the building. As I look ...
Don't they make life interesting? I'm tending to quite a few at the moment, and I am finding it interesting to notice where I make life more difficult than it needs to me. My biggest breakdowns are in the area of technology. I was advised that a complete reinstallation of my operating system ...
I'm a big fan of the movie Crash because it did an excellent job of illustrating this point:the greatest good and the greatest evil lies within us all. What got me writing about it now is a couple that I know that is going through a rocky period. ...