Are you taking it for granted?

What’s really happening when we “take something for granted”?  We stop noticing a person, a thing, an event or a situation.  We stop being in the moment and experiencing all

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Fix your posture

Have you ever had or do you currently have poor posture?  Have you ever had to rehab from an injury that made you need to change your normal

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Let it be or suppress it?

It’s pretty common these days for people to talk about sitting with a feeling or allowing “negative” thoughts without resisting them.  It is in the zeitgeist, whereas just 10-15

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Simple is different than easy

There are a lot of things that are simple but not easy.  The instructions can be simple, for example, eat less processed foods. It’s perhaps simple and probably

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What does it take to listen?

Artists who are looking to recreate life-like images of either landscapes, people or any kind of object that we see in reality, have to constantly battle with what

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Making comparisons is a losing game

Winning the daily comparison game (being better than the next person) is like getting Monopoly money.  No matter how much of it you get, it is still useless

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Placing the effort on the right thing

We consider that acceptance of what is, is a required first-step in making sustained change and progress.  If we start from resistance, upset, and avoidance of an issue, our

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Judging our inner world

Listening to a podcast the other day, we heard something interesting that went a little bit like this:  We judge others based on their actions not their intention, and

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Why is anger more motivating than joy?

Have you ever noticed that at times, anger is more motivating than joy?  The other day a friend had a bad experience with a retailer and wanted to give

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Why do we seem to get stuck?

Do you ever wonder why you keep repeating the same behavior over and over, even when you know it doesn’t work well or create the results you want?If

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