It’s Not Really All Going to Shit

Apply practical mindfulness to see where you are and what you can do. Spend any time watching the news or scrolling through social media, and chances are you’ll feel awful. The latest surreal act on the part of the Trump administration, the not-so-Supreme Court’s support of their BS, and the spinelessness and corruption in Congress are just depressing and/or infuriating as fuck. If you spend any time at all focused on this, you probably feel like it’s all going to

Stay The Course or Find a New Path?

An ill-defined line understood only through stillness and mindfulness. No matter who you are, what you do, or where you come from, you’re always experiencing things. This happens both passively and actively. I’ve said for years that there are three primary ways to choose to live your life. They are: Nobody chooses only one of the above. Everyone will flit from one to the other to the other from time to time. There are also additional variations for how to

When Life Hands You Lemons, Sometimes You Make Something Other Than Lemonade

Life seldom presents you with only one choice. There we were, sitting in the living room, chilling on the couch with the cats. The weekend was drawing to a close, and we were going to watch the Sunday night animated shows we enjoy. About five minutes in, the power goes out. That’s odd. Why is the power out? We look outside. Apart from the lamp on the side street beside the house being out, everything else appears to be working

Wouldn’t You Prefer Awake and Aware Over Asleep and Ignorant?

You’re empowered to make choices and decisions to live your life. Who is living your life? Is there anyone else inside of your mind, body, and soul? Can another person climb inside of your head, heart, and spirit and live your life? No. Yet an almost overwhelming narrative from various influencers, leaders, and instructors paints a different picture. They offer a vision of a specific, monochromatic viewpoint of what’s best for everyone. Given that all 8 billion people on Planet

Energy, Frequency, and Positivity

It’s all much more connected than we realize. I believe that everyone is unique from everyone else. No two people are alike, because nobody can be inside anyone else’s head, heart, or soul but their own. You alone are in your mind, your body, and your spirit. That means only you can have full knowledge of your health, wellness, and wellbeing. Whether physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual, you are the only one who experiences your life. Despite the individuality and

You’re the Protagonist of Your Life Experience

It’s incredibly easy to forget that. It’s not disingenuous to say that life is a story. It has a defined beginning, middle, and ending. Along the way, you have rising and falling action, meet colorful characters, heroes and villains, and everyone in between. The story of your life does have one, single, solitary constant. The protagonist. Across every aspect of your life, from beginning, middle, to the end, the protagonist remains the same. That would be you. While you, the

Right and Wrong Matter Less Than Choices Made

When you don’t choose, you cede your power. There are a lot of voices in the world telling you who, what, where, how, and why you should have, do, and be. Everywhere you turn, someone is going to tell you to do this, that, or the other thing. Be like this or suffer. Do like that or face pain. It’s intimidating, scary, and confusing. What’s the right choice? If I choose wrong, will I suffer, and how badly? For that

Your Path Begins Within You, Not Without

Only you can choose via your head, heart, and soul Everyone faces certain big questions along the way. Who are you? What do you desire? Why are you doing that? Sometimes these questions feel invasive. Other times, you can answer them with certainty. Most of the time, you need to look within to truly know what the answers are. None of the answers to these questions are static. They change. That’s because change is the only constant in the universe.

You Can Choose to See the Dark or Seek the Light

The decision is yours. Everywhere you turn, there’s doom and gloom. All across social media, new reports, conversations with friends and family, it’s like a cloud constantly hovering above you. None of this is normal. The sense of fear, uncertainty, and hopelessness dominating it all? This is not normal. Then, to complicate matters, finding the balance between knowledge and being informed versus oversharing and being inundated is always challenging. You can’t ignore what’s happening, wear blinders, and pretend this isn’t

No Path In Life Is Obstacle-Free

Are they obstacles or unique opportunities? Some weeks, this article gets written the day before I post it. Other weeks, like this one, it doesn’t get done until the morning I create it. It never ceases to amaze me how it just flows with ease one week, while another it’s a struggle to find what I desire to write about. This is one of the latter weeks. It doesn’t help that it’s a rainy day. Not in the sense of

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