Find Your Own Aunt Agnes
What you help a child to love can be more important than what you help him to learn. —African Proverb Last month my Aunt Agnes... Read More
Surf the Urges
The Rise and Fall of Urges: Surfing the Emotional Wake It is more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality. —Virginia Wolf A recent... Read More
Quiet Courage and Learning How to be Silent
A Parable on How to Fix What May be All Wrong A friend of mine had a sudden revelation that he didn’t want to go... Read More
The Habit Loop
Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last. —Chinese Proverb There is new research on the habit loop, which finds that when a habit emerges,... Read More
The ANTI New Years Resolution
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. —Albert Einstein Most New Years resolutions fail... Read More
No Crying on the Yacht
“No crying on the yacht” is what I overhead a mother tell her teenage daughter shopping in a clothing store. While a hilarious and abrupt... Read More
Deploying Strenghts
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious — Albert Einstein Our health care system is strongly oriented to “fixing” what is broken... Read More
Consult your Teenage Self
Consult Your Teenage Self to Find Your Power The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are. —Carl Jung Having power is... Read More
Divide and Conquer: 2,504 Diet Books
Divide and Conquer. A military metaphor: in order to rule [the self] don’t allow alliances of your enemies [unfulfilled or unspecified needs]. Truth isn’t always... Read More
Independence Day, Everyday
Set up a life that does not need escaping from —Seth Godin Earlier this month we celebrated Independence Day, the idea of liberty and what it... Read More