We are creatures of desire. Wanting sets the world in motion. This doesn’t trouble us, because we assume what we want is what we like, and indeed that we want it because we’ll like it – it’ll provide happiness, pleasure,…
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When was the last time you flowed? When you were immersed in the present, guiding each moment to the next through the unimpeded action of mind and body at the outer edge of your abilities? How beautiful, how exhilarating, how…
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In theory, striving for perfection should foster success and happiness. In reality, it rarely does. Perfectionism takes many forms: Needing to be perfect. Needing to become perfect. Needing to appear perfect. Perfect career, perfect relationship, perfect life. For some, perfectionism…
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The two most important days of your life are the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born. Let today be your discovery day. Purpose pervades life, gives breath to life, like air. Every action…
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It seems like the best way to reach a desired result would be to focus on that result, try to move toward it, and judge each attempt by how closely you approximate it. But actually that approach is far from…
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Did you savor today? Did you breathe it in, taste it, let it flow through you? Did you run your fingers over it, feel its shape, its contours, its texture? Or did it hurry by unexperienced? Most days for most…
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What are you grateful for? Gratitude is a feeling of ongoing thankfulness for what you have and an expression of your dependence upon the contributions and conditions that make those blessings possible. We have so much to be thankful for,…
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The mind is a noisy place. We often get lost in thoughts of a remembered past or an anticipated future. Whether reminiscing or regretting what has happened, or planning or worrying about what might happen, the past and the future…
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Along with the gift of self-awareness comes awareness of our mortality. Your battery is running down and can’t be recharged. We prefer not to think about what we wish wasn’t so, but the tragedy is that we’re mortal, not that…
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Internal and external forces conspire to make us think small. Fear of failure. Fear of social disapproval. Lack of confidence, imagination, inspiration. A world filled with meandering, half-lived lives that shape our beliefs about what life can be. Colleagues, friends…
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