Now Is It

We can get so distracted focusing on success, money and possessions, that we forget why we pursue these things in the first place: we yearn to feel validated and secure. It’s obvious why we want to feel this way, but chasing it too strenuously can cause the...

Practice Positive Perception

Basing your happiness on external measures that you can’t control is bound to create unhappiness. Forsaking conventional metrics of well-being like money and fame, might seem radical but it’s the most loving thing you can do for yourself. Choosing to be...

Got to Play to Enjoy

If you feel bad about yourself, others will have a hard time liking you, too. If you worry so much about failing that you don’t even play the game, you’ll fail to grow. If you don’t take a risk because you’re scared of loss, you’ll lose...

Attention Creates Your Reality

When it seems like the stars are aligned against you and nothing you try works out, you risk beginning to feel like this is the new normal. Believing that things won’t work out can actually lead you to making choices that confirm this perspective. Once...

Good Grooves

When life shows up in a way that doesn’t please you, remember that nothing is permanent. Grumbling about or resisting what is not only saps your joie de vivre, it aligns you energetically with more things to be displeased about. It’s the nature of the mind...

Live As If

Don’t wait to enjoy life until all your ‘ducks are in a row’. By the time those little duckies are nicely arrayed and quacking in unison, you will be so firmly rooted in the habit of waiting, that you won’t even know how to enjoy that fairy...