“Amazing Grace.  How sweet the sound.  Grace is a sound….it’s  some kind of surrender”.  Bono I sometimes struggle with letting events play out-  i.e surrendering.   I can be averse to fully accepting reality and the twists and turns of life.  As a person who wants to be at ease in the world, I’ve had to ...Read More

You get what you repeat.                                             James Clear, Atomic Habits Harvard Business School researchers conducted a detailed study tracking the 15-minute time increments of 27 successful CEOs over three months.  While many of us are...Read More

We first make our habits, then our habits make us.                                         John Dryden (English poet, died 1701) I was talking to  my friend Pia about something I wanted to do but felt it would be difficult and...Read More

The oldest, shortest words, ‘YES’ and ‘NO’ are those that require the most thought.                 Pythagoras (died 495 BC) When overwhelmed, flooded with the feeling that I can’t get it all done, I recognize that I have slipped back into the land of people-pleasing and said YES to too...Read More

The rest is not our business.   T.S. Elliott Awe is an emotion that may be a key to the good life.  It’s that unique feeling of being in the presence of something vast.  It transcends our current understanding of the world; it’s beyond language and thought. It’s the taking in of breathtaking beauty.  We can...Read More

You must do the things you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt The term “hack” originated circa 1300 from Hackney, a borough of London, where horses were raised that were flashy and trotted with a high step but were high strung. They were not thoroughbreds or good for show or work but rather raised for...Read More

If peace comes from seeing the whole, then misery stems from a loss of perspective.                    Mark Nepo The source of so much stress in my life and the folks I work with is the expectation that whenever we pursue something, anything, we expect it to go...Read More

Everyone should have their mind blown once a day                            Neal deGrasse Tyson,  Astrophysicist This winter, I spent an extended period of time on the other side of the country helping my brother through a medical crisis. It’s been a frightening time and...Read More

It’s not how old you are, it’s how you are old.   Jules Renard Fluid Intelligence is raw intelligence- the ability to solve novel, abstract problems.  It increases through our 30s then begins a precipitous decline in our 40s.  This explains why younger people are more innovative and populate startups and new music genres. Most readers...Read More

Apathy is feeling indifferent about what is going around you.  It can often travel with depression, but apathy does not include feelings of hopelessness, sadness and chronic emptiness.  Apathy is a lack of motivation.  The very first place to go is inside, to accurately name the truer, deeper feeling one may be experiencing.   Doing this...Read More