“Success is inevitable. As long as you don't give up and keep doing the personal work on yourself.” Do you ever have occasion to question your confidence? Find yourself in a situation where you’re in a bit over your head, or trying something slightly out of your league? It’s part of the human condition that we [...]
“Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” Do you ever wonder just where in the heck the years go? Why is it that as we get older, it seems like the years go by faster? Has another year clicked by and some of your [...]
How far do you have to zoom out to see the big picture? What does it take for you to really get perspective on life? Does it help to sometimes back out into the macro to come to terms with the micro? This is the last Monday Love of 2016! The turning of the calendar is [...]
Do you remember what it's like to pretend? To willfully suspend disbelief and just completely drop in to another reality? When was the last time you let your imagination improvise and take you on a flight of fancy? As grown-ups we tend to put that part of ourselves aside, and keep ourselves focused on the cares [...]
Is “emotional intelligence” high on your list of priorities for your family environment or in the space you hold for your conscious movement or dance classes? Does it seem like more people you know are feeling more sadness and fear and having trouble simply being calm and happy? What if there was something we take for granted [...]
Do you ever find yourself mentally hunkering down after hearing bad news, hoping that no one you know personally was involved? We hear about disasters all the time, but there’s usually a buffer zone of distance, some degrees of separation between us and the people involved. After all, if we were to immerse ourselves fully in [...]
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Often, it is the animals that provide a frame for the human condition" ~ JoAnna Mendl-Shaw Do you ever let your tendency for kindness get you in over your head? You know what I mean, those situations where are you say yes to something out of the goodness of your heart only to find out later [...]
Have you ever heard this Zen riddle? The one about “What does a fish know the least about?” The answer of course, is “water.” It points to the idea that we have very little awareness about whatever it is that we’re surrounded by. What’s normal is not always noticeable. Then there's the phrase “Like a fish [...]
Have you ever broken one of the “Four Agreements” and then woken up the next day and wondered, “What the heck just happened?” Try as we might to hold ourselves to higher standards, we’re only human and sometimes we miss the mark. It seems like a lot of us were guilty of making assumptions about the [...]
