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Rally People around Your Paradigm
Team D is an ethnically diverse crew. We are: from Ukraine; raised and living in the Philippines; Mexican American; from Lebanon, living in Paris; from Paris, living in Vancouver; pure Aussie; and...
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23 Questions to Celebrate Your Year & Set New Year Goals for 2018
As you set your new year goals for 2018, it’s a good idea to take stock of the progress you’ve made toward your goals this year. For many people, this review is unpleasant and can even lead to a...
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You. Yes, YOU – Get out of Your Way!
Just over one week on, Christmas seems like a distant memory, and, as the reality of the daily routines begin to dawn, I expect that many New Year’s resolutions are already being packed away along with...
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Meditations in the Mountains
I honestly had no idea what I was getting into when I decided to sign up for a trip to the Everest Base Camp. This had been a goal of mine for half my life. There was the elusiveness and beauty of the...
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How to Set Boundaries with Impossible People (Including Narcissists!)
Do you have people in your life who are so difficult, so demanding, that when it comes time for you to speak your mind or ask for what you want, it’s just not worth it? Does the amount of stress this...
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How to Find Balance
What does balance even mean and how do we find it? We do not find balance by squeezing in a yoga class at the end of the day still thinking about work in our downward dog. And we do not create balance...
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Astonishing! More than One Million People Have Taken the Four Tendencies Quiz
For several years now, I’ve been pondering, writing, and talking about the Four Tendencies — my personality framework that divides the world into Upholders, Questioners, Obligers, and Rebels. I got my...
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Justice and Dignity, the Endless Shortage
You will never regret offering dignity to others. We rarely get into trouble because we overdo our sense of justice and fairness. Not just us, but where we work, the others we influence. Organizations...
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Finding Your Way Through to Happiness
Ernest Hemingway once said that happiness in intelligent people is the rarest he knew. While it is true that many of us tend to overthink, let’s challenge the idea that being more intelligent or...
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Awakening Your Sacred Power of Acceptance
Acceptance is the root and the foundation of many wisdom traditions, including Buddhist compassion teachings, the Law of Least Effort, and Christ Consciousness. But regardless of your orientation to...
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I Really Suck at Letting Friends Go
I really suck at letting friends go. Since I was little, I’ve had the deepest attachments to my friends, old and new. When I was 16, I’d take off in the middle of the night, escape my apartment and...
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No More Lies After Loss
‘The Life we live, is the lesson we teach,’ my friend Jim Kwik mentioned in one of his writings. I read it just before I was going to sit down and write to you. And it hit me. The life I live. Is the...
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How I Managed to Do Something I Love and Built a Life I Found Worth Living
It is going to sound strange but I am here to tell you how I managed to change my entire life by simply staying in bed. And no before you click away – this isn’t one of those get rich quick tales where...
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10 Reasons Why Procrastination is a Superpower
First, I need to address the elephant in the room. After I post this here’s what many comments and tweets will immediately say: “I want to read this but I will put it off until later.” Or some...
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Loss Happens. It’s THE COST OF DOING BUSINESS. And Life.
Restaurant budgets have a line item called “spoilage” or “wastage” to track food that’s gone bad or is unusable. Sometimes it includes breakage of glasses, stolen cutlery and those kinds of things....
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Lunches with the Homeless
By Jan Shepherd, as told to Elaine Lipworth Three months ago, I was walking along Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, shopping for a gift, when a grey-haired man wearing jeans and a jacket...
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How to Defeat Self-Doubt, Trade Perfectionism for Possibility, and Live Your...
When we were younger, we really felt it, didn’t we? And by “it”, of course, I mean life. Once upon a time, we had big feelings about everything from our birthdays to our breakfast cereals. We felt...
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: How Your Distorted Body Image Is Harming You
Do you ever have thoughts like these? My life would be better if I looked better. I will never look as good as _____________. My _________ is/are so ugly. I am so fat. The scale can’t be right. I look...
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How to Set Boundaries at the Office
Is there one person at work, no matter where you work, who drives you crazy? Or do you always seem to have a boss who is completely awful and can reduce you to tears with their difficult personality?...
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Are You Addicted to Thinking?
Ever feel like your mind just will not shut off? Most of us are addicted to thinking. Our addiction tends to intensify when our mind perceives there is a problem to be solved. We want answers. We want...
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