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]
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