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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
