Alas, life doesn’t always go as planned even when well planned. No matter our station or age, life has a tendency to serve up experiences that can throw us into chaos or rigidity.  It was 6:28 pm on another Wednesday and I could feel my anxiety rising.  My wife and I had just spent an inordinate amount of time trying to direct our scattered 7-year old daughter out the door, with about the same success as trying to direct a cat.  Just as we were about to leave...

The New Year is often a time where we take stock of where we are at in our life’s journey and make minor course corrections, often called resolutions.   

Before you jump to the common course corrections like “join a gym” or “lose 10 pounds”, it is worth pausing and looking at the bigger picture.  Rather than reactwith a minor course correction or two (often made from a place of autopilot) you want to be intentional about this.  Remember there is a captain on this journey (you!) and the first thing the captain needs to be clear on is...

Ask yourself this question - "Was the choice to read this article an intentional one or a reactive one?"  Did you consciously choose this or was it a response - a reaction to seeing something pop up?  If you want to know which it was, you can easily find out by paying attention to how you feel right now.  If this was an intentional choice...

John Muir is often quoted with: m“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe”. For me that statement has always seemed like an abstraction, a ‘truth’ that enlightened folks might understand but one I might not ever fully get. Sure, there are networks and ecosystems where I can see the whole and the interdependence – but does it really apply to everything?