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What is Not There. What is.
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Goal Setting and the Case against Optimism
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The Danger of Virtuous Intentions
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Goodbye 2018: Failed Expectations, Pain and Joy
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Only the Mind is in Need of Healing
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Cleared Space: Eliminating the Unnecessary
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Out of Practice/Giving up Judgment
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Happy Anniversary Jay and Nancy
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Rhythm, Routines, Competing Priorities, Keeping My/Your Word and Success
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Let Me Remember*
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Off the Hook
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Magic Thoughts
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Love Letter to Michael Rowe
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A Story about Stories
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The Ear of Corn Saga
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Breadcrumbs to the No-Self
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Nothing to Fix
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In Search of the Peace of God
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Hell: Resistance to Life
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Love Leads So Gladly
Goal Setting and the Case against Optimism
I am an optimist. It is one of my biggest faults. Oh, I know that sounds like one of those clever answers you concoct for a job interview, so that one of your greatest strengths sounds like a defect, but I am serious. Being optimistic can be fatal to my goals. I constantly under-estimate the […]
The Danger of Virtuous Intentions
It’s the New Year and New Year’s Day is the perfect depiction of how good intentions can have a corrupting influence. I’ve long thought it a little insane to go out on New Year’s Eve and party so hardy that you wake up already on the wrong side of accomplishing your goals. It’s the “I’m […]
Goodbye 2018: Failed Expectations, Pain and Joy
It’s hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that the year is coming to an end. I feel like I have nothing to show for it, in part because my writing has been so sparse lately. I have managed to return to my “morning pages” habit – so I am at least […]
Only the Mind is in Need of Healing
It snowed last night. Nothing major. It was a mere inch or two that covered the trees and ground, but I am scheduled for duty at church for first service so staying in is not an option. But in truth, I just want to hunker down. Jay is still in bed and I’d forgotten how […]
Cleared Space: Eliminating the Unnecessary
These days, I am all about eliminating the unnecessary. I am no longer interested in living up to anyone else’s expectations. I am past the point of holding on to things because I “should.” I’m more interested in cleared space. I’m more interested in emptiness. I want peace not chaos. There are fewer and fewer […]
Out of Practice/Giving up Judgment
I am out of practice. I am here to own that. About a year ago, I was invited to speak with the teen group about my spiritual practice because mine was so strong I was considered a good role model, so it is a little shocking to me how lax I have become. I have […]
Happy Anniversary Jay and Nancy
So this was written three years ago. Today is our 26th wedding anniversary and we still feel like we look in this picture — crazy about each other! Twenty-three years ago today, at just about this time, Jay and I were in the midst of our wedding ceremony. It was Sunday. The wedding was […]
Rhythm, Routines, Competing Priorities, Keeping My/Your Word and Success
I have struggled to find the rhythm that will lead me to success, by which I mean a life filled with the things I want to accomplish. My latest book is The Motivation Myth: How High Achievers Really Set Themselves Up to Win and what I have come to realize is my issue is my […]
Let Me Remember*
Today is one of those days when conflicting goals find me feeling tempted to enter stress-monkey mode. So naturally, because everything is truly in divine right order, today’s Course lesson is “Let me remember what my purpose is.” It is the reminder that I cannot serve two masters simultaneously. It says “No one can serve […]
