I went to a live story-telling event the other night in San Francisco where audience members submitted their names to be called on stage to share a true 5-minute story related to a theme. One by one these 10 people got up and shared some incredibly vulnerable piece of themselves with this audience of strangers, [...]

I’ve been feeling kinda disappointed today. I’ve said before how I believe dating is one of the most perfect spiritual practices around, and disappointment is the growth material on the table at the moment. I’ve had a nice little run of dates recently and been feeling good about how I’ve been able to approach this [...]

I went to a networking event the other night that seemed right up my alley, but found myself sitting in resistance the entire night once I got there. And what was hilarious was I actually saw myself resisting. I was aware that I was mentally contradicting almost every word out of the speaker’s mouth, watched [...]

I’m feeling confused. I’d felt like I had a pretty good sense of where I was heading with this coaching business, but recently the vision seems to be rearranging itself. I’m finding myself drawn to and inspired by different types of people and excited about elements of this path I never would have expected. I [...]

I didn’t have anything special planned for Valentine’s Day yesterday. In fact, I ended up working pretty much start to finish. But with the theme in the air, I found myself noticing an awful lot of love anyway. There’s a lot of talk about how hard Valentine’s Day can be for single people. A local radio station [...]

Yesterday was kind of a breakthrough day for me. After more than a year of struggling with daily frustration with my upstairs neighbor’s bass-heavy music rattling through the hardwood floor into my otherwise peaceful apartment, making me feel crazy to the point that I was on craigslist checking out other apartments and calling my landlord [...]

“Contrary to what you may have been taught, there is nothing frivolous or superficial about what you want. It isn’t a luxury that can wait until you’ve taken care of all the ‘serious’ business of life. It’s a necessity. What you want is what you need. Your dearest wish comes straight from your core, loaded [...]

As my head’s flu fogginess clears, I’ve started to return to my regular daily practices, meditation primary among them. Sitting just wasn’t something I was prioritizing while I was sick. There wasn’t even an inner debate about it, it just wasn’t on the radar. But as my normal energy started coming back, this thought was [...]

I’m on day 8 of the flu. I haven’t been sick in years, and when I got knocked over by this, I kind of thought, “Well, no big deal, this happens to people, I’ll rest for a few days and be ready to roll again.” So those first few days, while unpleasant, didn’t involve much [...]

“The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you’re free.”  -Ray Manzarek I’d been feeling the theme of “challenge” calling me for the new year, but it didn’t feel quite right. I didn’t want to focus on challenge in [...]