Our expectations can heal us, and they can harm us. Many people are afraid of losing, winning, playing, and embracing much that life has to offer. Moving that to a new co...read full story
How many times have you said this? “I don’t have any gifts.” “I am not a gifted person.”If you have been thinking that, you should definitel...read full story
An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots; they hung on opposite ends of a pole, which she carried across the back of her neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, while...read full story
My favorite definition of success, which I’ve cited on numerous occasions, was offered by Henry David Thoreau in the mid-19th century at Walden Pond: “If one ...read full story
Most people are having the wrong conversation. Or conflicting conversations. Or worse, no conversation at all. We continue to live in old models of making a living, educa...read full story
On September 1st, 1990, I taught my very first course to 15 people in a small classroom at the Camden College of English in Chalk Farm, London. Twenty years and tens of t...read full story
“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”- Emily DickinsonIf the school of grace had its own motto, it would surely be: &...read full story
There’s seldom a day goes by that I don’t encounter a person who is distraught because their life hasn’t turned out the way they thought it would or the...read full story
As a track athlete, I remember always wondering how Olympian Carl Lewis was able to win all those races right at the very end. Very seldom did he come out of the blocks f...read full story
Most of us would really love to move beyond thinking, and worrying, about money into a state of living from abundance. So how do we make that happen? My own journey began...read full story
