Have The Courage to Be Unimpressed

One of the reasons movies are so powerful For a couple of hours, movies make fiction feel real. Then the credits roll, the lights come up, and we return to reality. Often our minds remind us - it was only a story. Life isn't always so accommodating. In my … [Read more...]

You Don’t Need More Control, You Need More Clarity

We all need to clear clutter out of our lives. At home, I clean out closets, cupboards, the refrigerator, drawers, office space - whatever has become crowded, stale, or unnecessary. It’s part of life. Unless you’re a hoarder, and I’m assuming you’re not, clearing physical space is natural. But I … [Read more...]

Are You Trying to Wrestle Life Into Submission?

Do you ever notice how exhausting it is trying to control everything? Trying to fix people. Force outcomes. Make life behave the way you think it should. It’s like wrestling something that refuses to stay pinned. Are you trying to wrestle life into submission? Here’s the kicker: the harder you … [Read more...]

Closing the Door – Not Because You Failed, But Because You Grew

  Poet Sylvia Plath on the courage to close doors: “I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn’t make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I … [Read more...]

Stepping Out of the Struggle Loop

Let's be honest... Most of us have spent some portion of our lives stuck in a struggle loop. Different decades, different packaging - same pattern. At times it looks productive and noble, at other times it is just exhausting, not only to us, but to others. What do we do? Work harder, push longer, … [Read more...]