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Where Do You Get Your Information?

Where Do You Get Your Information?

On one hand, you’ve got the “authorities” (of course, they’re the ones saying they’re the authorities, and we often trust them just because they do). On the other hand, you’ve got individuals, those who are drawing on the wisdom that comes from their own experience and learning, to the voices who have trodden the path and stand to speak about it.

Expression, Reinvention, and Transparency (or, A Rant for Being Honest)

Expression, Reinvention, and Transparency (or, A Rant for Being Honest)

If you want to reach people, you have to dig deep. You have to extract the essence of what you’re about, and offer it up on a platter to anyone and everyone.

I Was Going To Write About SOBCon, but…

I Was Going To Write About SOBCon, but…

… a tire exploded. Seriously. And turned into yet another fantastic lesson in the power of gratitude. Seriously.

How Doing The Dishes Can Make Your Life

How Doing The Dishes Can Make Your Life

What I’m going to share with you today has the potential to save your marriage, your sanity, and help you become the kind of person you’ve perhaps dreamed you could become, but haven’t known how before. And it all boils down to one word…

Cry Out In Your Weakness

Cry Out In Your Weakness

When you don’t open up to others because you’re afraid of not being loved, you end up not being loved nearly as much as you could, because you’re practically invisible.

Which Of The 3 S’s Are You?

Which Of The 3 S’s Are You?

There are plenty of metrics you can use to get a better grip on where you are in your life, and height isn’t one of them, unless you’re a teenage NBA hopeful. For the rest of us, let’s take a look at a metric that can have direct bearing on the kinds of conversations you should—and shouldn’t—be having.

What The Heck Is A Viveratus, anyway?

What The Heck Is A Viveratus, anyway?

I’ve talked with so many people in so many different industries that have been going through clarity spikes in their identities, I figured this post might come in handy, perhaps pointing the way for others in the throes of transition. And, if nothing else, it gives me a place to point people when they say, “Vive-what?”

How To Think Like E

How To Think Like E

She lived so large, she made superheros nervous.

How To Heal What Ails You With EFT

How To Heal What Ails You With EFT

I’m always amazed when I talk with people who haven’t heard of EFT. Of course, before I heard of it, I hadn’t heard of it, either…

How Wabi-Sabi Can Help Your Search For Meaning

How Wabi-Sabi Can Help Your Search For Meaning

Discovering your purpose isn’t a race. Instead of having the attitude of, “I’ve gotta find it NOW, so I can get going and make it happen!”, with a drive for perfection and a “now-I-can-stop-searching-and-just-be-happy” attitude, you’ll be far better off taking a page from the book of Japanese aesthetics, and more specifically, the concept of wabi-sabi.