Intention & Inspiration: How to Ignite Lasting Happiness
Intention. Inspiration. How often do you use these words at work or at home with family or friends? Do you have a good sense of what they really mean and how they operate in your life to facilitate lasting happiness? [read more]
When Parents Suffer the Loss of Expectation
Isn’t it just so frustrating and stressful when things don’t go your way? We should be able to have our cake and eat it too. Right? But who ever said life was supposed to cooperate like that? [read more]
3 Essential Elements of Genuine Happiness
It’s all over the news these days. There are hundreds of TED talks on this topic. Researchers are devoting their entire careers to this theme. I’m talking about the often elusive cultivation of genuine, lasting happiness. [read more]
Compassion Transforms Parental Suffering
Years ago as I was walking to work, I witnessed a disturbing interaction between a mother and a young child. [read more]
Hope For A Greater Good
It’s so easy these days to be down on the world. There is so much misery and suffering, so much war and violence, so much self-righteousness, so much self-hatred. And yet… [read more]
Why New Years Resolutions Fail
Happy New Year! Now that the celebrations are over, let’s talk resolutions and why so many new years resolutions fail. [read more]
To Text or Not To Text: That Is Not The Question
So he starts picking a fight with me and yells, “What’s wrong with you, why do you always do that?!?” And I am so pissed and yell back, “You always do this! Why can’t you just calm down!” [read more]
Sourcing Our Good Fortune: Making Happiness More Possible
We often log thousands of hours of our lives trying to figure out who has done us wrong and how we ended up this way. [read more]
Turning Schadenfreude On Its Head: Cultivating Joy for Others’ Good Fortune
The Germans have a word for delighting in the misery and misfortune of others – Schaedenfreude. We might initially react to the concept of Schaedenfreude with a resounding “Not me! That’s horrible to think about. Who would feel good about others’ feeling bad?” [read more]
How Mindfulness Tears Down the Walls of Stress
Have you ever gotten really stressed out and then thought about how beautiful the world really is, how much you really love the person who may have pissed you off, or how you are finally going to commit to volunteering at that homeless shelter? [read more]
What is Mindfulness?: Diving More Deeply
If you haven’t checked out What is Mindfulness?: Why All the Hype?, check it out HERE. That article will give you a bit of background on what we mean by mindfulness. [read more]
What is Mindfulness? Why All the Hype?
Many of us by now have likely heard of the term “mindfulness.” It seems like every 5th book on the psychology and self-help shelves has the word mindfulness in the title. [read more]
Mindful Media Consumption: Eating and Digesting the Social Sphere
These days it seems like we can’t go five minutes before being assaulted by or choosing to engage with some kind of social media. This trend was made benignly but oddly clear to me recently during a lunch with a good friend. [read more]
Plugged In, Tuned Out: How Mindfulness Can Literally Save Your Life
Now I don’t know about you, but I really hate getting hit by cars. Why I hate getting hit by cars is not the subject of this post. However, how hundreds of people in the Boston area are almost hit by cars each day is the lamentable topic for today. [read more]
Mindful Parenting: Giving the Gift of Sovereignty
Your children don’t know every single thing that you think about them. They can’t possibly. Nor would that be very useful to anyone involved. As a parent, you don’t know every single thing about your children. You can’t possibly. Nor would that be very useful to anyone involved. [read more]
Changing Habits of Mind and Choosing a More Mindful Life
For many years as you leave your house in the morning you walk by a lovely stream that snakes its way through your neighborhood. This stream is peaceful and helps you prepare for the day and de-stress when you come home in the evening. [read more]
The Profound Benefits of Mindful Acknowledgement
Living our lives can be a very tough job. Living our lives can also be a very wondrous experience. These are facts for most if not all human beings. [read more]
Mindful Living: A Life Less Hard Begins Now
Welcome to my blog, Life Less Hard: The Art & Science of Mindful Living. I have conceptualized this blog as a way to communicate with the public about how we can live our lives with greater ease, with less suffering, with more joy, and with more purpose. The title, Life Less Hard, implies that our lives are usually pretty tough. But the [read more]
