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When you’re stuck, it can be disempowering and scary.  You might find yourself oversleeping, spending mindless hours on the web, eating too much chocolate or otherwise burning your time bridge. [...]

Organization is one of the holy grails in this world of information overload: organizing bills, checking accounts, grocery lists, house expenses, email contacts, computer files, your junk drawer, [...]

How to break free from the tyranny of thoughts that play on a loop in your brain … When Myrko Thrum did his top ten list of best Buddha quotes a few years ago, the first one was paraphrased [...]

Have you ever found yourself feeling the more you did the worse things got? That’s called a vicious cycle. We’ve all been there, the question is: how do we break it? Well, you might try asking [...]

I leapt for joy last Sunday, walking through the beauty of Seattle’s Arboretum.  I was so happy to be out of the hot humidity of Nashville in July.  No wonder people move here, I thought: [...]

Have you ever made a commitment to yourself then broken it? Done something that was less than your best? Made a mess of a relationship? Most of us have gotten off-track somewhere, somehow and we [...]

It was glorious Vermont summer day.  I was in a great mood.  My editor Suzanne and I had a productive morning and had stopped to make copies of some chapters in my upcoming book. Before entering [...]

Unless you have a meditation practice, you might think you don’t have one.  We generally associate mantras and meditation.  In Hinduism a mantra is a word or sound you repeat like a prayer.  In [...]

The clerk takes your credit card without making eye contact, your waitress barely looks at you when she writes your order, the TSA guard at the airport doesn’t so much as glance from your [...]

Have you ever “suffered in silence” with: A project that was going to miss a deadline? Planning an ambitious social event that became overwhelming? A family responsibility that was derailing your [...]