The Practice of Your Life

The Exercise and Pursuit of a Consciously Created Life

Launch of Morevidareviews.com

Jan 13
2010

Now on to some good news (my last post was not so cheerful).  I’ve been working with a company called LightThread to develop a review site for the courses and coaches in personal growth and development.  I launched a beta version of the site yesterday and you can read the press release by clicking on the News & Events tab on this site.  I’m very excited.

There are thousands of seminars, workshops, retreats, conferences etc. and really no way to evaluate what’s good from what’s not.  I was surprised to discover that there was no equivalent to a www.zagat.com or a www.yelp.com where you can read what regular people have to say about a restaurant or some local service (Yelp) that you are considering.  People use these services… Continue reading

Can you coach me in living my life as a practice?

Mar 18
2008

This was a question from a very good friend of mine.   My initial reaction was, “Noooo???!” “It’s your life. The whole idea is that you get to invent what your practice looks like.” I didn’t in fact say this, it was what was going on in my head, and in my head I played out the most likely scenario of his response, which would have been something like, “So what the hell good are you then? What value do you provide to people?”

While I would have had a good answer to this hypothetical response, I knew that this thought process was an indication of my resistance to something important. Once people understand the concept of living their life as a practice, the next place for them to go is, “… Continue reading