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App For Life

"Tell me,whatis it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?"

These words of poet Mary Oliver strike a cord with me. You see, I believe that you and I did not appear in this life by random chance. We are here to play a unique part in the ongoing circle of life. Whatever it is you plan to do, that path is already calling to you.

Question is, how do you find that path? How do you know where to go and what to do to have the most impact?

I’d like to offer you an app to help you find and stay the course.

Obituary For The American Dream

"Once upon a time there was a very rich country where everybody was happy…” 

Like many cultures, the mythology of the American Dream started out much like a fairy tale. Every culture has such a mythology: a mixture of stories, symbols and beliefs that tell people where they come from, where they are headed, and what they collectively believe in.

When a country diverges from its original mythos or fails to revise that mythos, it becomes irrelevant and the civilization may fall away. History is filled with examples of empires that rose, abandoned their founding principles or refused to revise them and ultimately fell, becoming obsolete.

Perseverance Is The Key To Realize Dreams

Life usually rewards not those who dream big, but those who persevere in actively pursuing their dream. They know that perseverance is the key that realizes dreams. I’m sure you’ve seen these winners: they’re the ones who stay focused, who take action daily to realize their dreams, and who repeat that winning formula until the results show up.

What is your dream? What is that one thing that would get you out of bed with a spring in your step? What is the living legacy you want to leave behind as a blazing trail for others to follow?

Personal Transformation

Changing your Life From Within

The world you create around you is a direct reflection of the value that you place on yourself. Before you can have a different life; before you can be happier, wiser, more at peace and empowered, you must first change from within. Personal transformation is the outcome of changing your life from within; ofbeingdifferent than you were before.

Beingis everything.

All things on this planet - animated or not - are expressions of one great Intelligence, Creative Source or Being.

Time To Remember Our Oneness

We are living at a time in history when deep fissures are dividing our society over differences in politics, religion, economics, environmental issues and social upheaval.

Dissention and separation run everywhere, threatening to engulf our sense of a collective commons. Instead of joining the dissenters, perhaps it is time for us to remember the higher truth of our oneness. Wisdom traditions through the ages have reminded us that we are not separate beings, but that we are part of one collective.

Five Powerful Words

As I’ve researched ideas, principles and strategies for life’s challenges through the years, I’ve come across five powerful words that can transform life and make it worth living. These powerful words are action verbs that refer to your innate power tochoose, learn, do, stay and care.  Together, they can transform your life!

1.    Choose.

The first of these is your power to CHOOSE.

Those in search of a good life usually do not need more information or more time to think things over to reach better conclusions.

Coping With Change

Coping with the rapid pace of change is a subject I’ve written and spoken about frequently in recent years. And it’s a theme that comes up more and more in my kinesiology practice, where I see increasing numbers of clients presenting with disturbances of the throat and thyroid even as they attempt ways of coping with change in their lives.

I usually find that beneath the presenting symptoms of thyroid imbalance or anxiety, these clients feel squeezed by the rapid pace of change in their lives.

Core Ingredients For Success

Most of us have more dreams than we could possible realize in one lifetime, and that’s a good thing. And yet, many folks never fully realize their dreams: they don't have the vaguest clue about developing the core ingredients for success; how to identify the best ones and implement them to achieve success in a noisy and distraction-filled world.

The lives of individuals today are more fragmented and marked by more discontinuity than ever before. And yet, success is more easily available than ever before, provided we focus on and align with the core ingredients required for success.

How To Renew Your Passion For Life

When was the last time you felt truly passionate about something? Felt good, right? And so it should!

Passion is most evident when body, mind and spirit work together to create, articulate or manifest feelings, ideas and values. It is the presence of your soul combined with the totality of all you've experienced, and it endows you with the power to live at optimal levels.

Simply put, it's your natural state. When what you do is in alignment with who you are, you gain energy from it. It's like water flowing along its natural riverbed, gaining momentum from its course - unlike most people’s work experience, which is more like trying to force water up and over a mountain!

How To Bounce Back From Setbacks

Disasters and upheaval happen in every life.

You may have been spared the trauma of earthquakes, random violence or war… only to face work layoffs, mounting debt, or a devastating medical diagnosis. Perhaps you feel stuck working at a job you hate but can’t leave because of current market conditions, or you don’t know how to change a seriously dysfunctional relationship.

When setbacks hit, it is common to feel overwhelmed, helpless and scared. In fact, others may tell you that you are overreacting; things are not all that bad.