Money, the last taboo

Thinking or talking about Money is never just about Money. Money has a way of bringing out the absolute best and absolute worst in people. Money has a way of slithering into every facets of our lives and affects our ego, our feelings, our thoughts and our relationships. I have often read […]

It doesn’t matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn’t matter if the room has been dark for a day, or a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we contract our capacity for love and happiness - the good - the light has been turned on.

Sharon Salzberg

Feel better about what you do this year…. no matter what you do!

One of my favorite productivity sites is 43folders.com, to which you can find articles ranging from how to organize your receipts to how to keep your inbox under control, all around the notion of maximum productivity. Well a few days ago there was a post on the site that went completely against […]

Things I learned In 2007

We want to change everyone else because somehow changing the world seems easier then changing ourself. I long looked at fundamentalists with such pity. I would always think to myself that this person is trying to change everyone because deep down they just hate themselves and don’t feel like they have the capacity for […]

Happy Times = Sad Times, that end of vacation feeling :(

Yesterday I went snowboarding, one of my favorite things to do. The mountain was perfect with 12″ of powder and the snow just kept falling. The first 3 hours were total bliss, and then around the 4th hour I started to feel very sad.
You know that sad end of vacation feeling, when you […]

How I Turned Sucky Sundays into Happy Ice Cream Sundaes

photo courtesy of C.J.M

For Monday through Friday workers Sundays just suck. I mean yeah, you don’t have to work, but you know you have to the next day, and that little fact justs gnaws at you. You know you can’t stay up late, you know that there is probably stuff that needs to be […]

Pay It Forwarder

The Idea:
I am sure you have all heard of the concept of “pay it forward” as made famous by the Pay It Forward Movie starring Kevin Spacey or the series ran by Oprah, or possibly from a life experience of someone doing something nice and telling you to “pay it forward”. In any event […]