Image by Dan In my past 30 years of personal growth, it became obvious that transforming fear into joy first meant relinquishing my addictions. Or, as Dr. Daniel Sumrok states, abandoning my ritualized compulsive comfort-seeking. When thought of as comfort…
In order to be happy, have you spent your life resisting social pressures to be normal? Has anyone said to you, “Why can’t you be like everyone else?” I can certainly relate having elected not to be a wife or…
I began my meditation practice in 1992, almost 30 years ago. Without question, meditation was and is instrumental in transforming my thoughts, feelings, words and actions. I have more mental, physical and creative energy in this second half of…
Adults or kids alike, many of us enjoy dressing up on Hallowe’en in our superhero or super funny costumes. Dress-up is a wonder-filled way to activate the imagination by pretending we are someone or something else. Not only do we…
There are no bad people, only bad systems frustrating good people from doing good work. In 25 years of supporting individuals and organizations to move from Now to WOW in their growth and development, the default reaction of blaming another…
As you may have reasoned from reading past blogs, my mind constantly seeks to draw out of life what I call universal principles. It’s my way of seeing the world from a simpler, less busy perspective. As an example, when…
I am pondering the possibility that globally we are an addictive society. If we were to suspend our defensiveness and open our minds to this possible truth, then is it also true that each of us has been or still…
Two weeks back, I promised to finish my list of what matters most on a path of peace, love and joy. This is a fitting subject for a day where I am entering my seventh decade of living. On these…
It is my experience that whenever I set out to change some aspect of myself, whether behaviour, belief or being, my awareness of my behaviour is just the first step in my transformation process. Although I am inspired by my…
At a recent evening meal, I was surprised to hear one of the female guests say, “People don’t really change, do they?” Given the current organizational ethos — change is the only constant — along with women being the purveyors…
When attempting to define compassion, many begin by describing it as non-judgment. As someone who wishes to focus on what I want in life rather than what I don’t want (negativity), I would much rather describe the experience of compassion…
If little labour, little are our gains: Man’s fate is according to his pains. Robert Herrick, Hesperides (1650) In 1982 when Jane Fonda touted the words, “No pain, no gain,” she was referencing a physical exercise motto intended to build…
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