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

Without the ability to end things, people stay stuck, never becoming who they are meant to be, never accomplishing all that their talents and abilities should afford them. Henry Cloud,  Necessary Endings Tarzan must drop one vine in order to grab the one that will pull him forward.  Our wellbeing and personal growth could be...Read More

Right now, the growth edge I’m working on is learning to become less reactive to everything: unplanned events, weather, traffic, difficult people, politics, taxes, insects, all of it. I just returned from hosting a Wellness Week at Playa Avellana, Costa Rica, where I spent hours watching surfers in the Pacific. Their agility astonished me ‑they...Read More

You must change your life.                                                            Rainer Maria Rilke [1875-1926] Archaic Torso of Apollo Finding myself in the second half of life, I am noticing very different...Read More