Sabbatical #2: The Family Altar
At the risk of sounding trite, my 2nd sabbatical came at the perfect time. As the year-in/year-out demands of balancing family and work keep charging forward, December 2015 turned out to be the crucial pause between two major phases of my life. It’s easy to trace any of the magic of my last three years back to […]
Scott Dinsmore Tribute Song
In early September, Scott Dinsmore, Founder of the Live Your Legend website and worldwide community passed in a tragic accident as he pursued a lifelong dream of hiking Mount Kilimanjaro. Although we met only a handful of times, I felt we had a natural bond and a lot of mutual respect. Just a solid, loving guy. He was […]
Hello Failure My Old Friend
How can we process a perceived failure, integrate its lessons, and then move the hell on as gracefully as possible? There is no failure here, sweetheart. Just when you quit. – U2, “Miracle Drug” CASE STUDY. On Sunday, I made a painful, but necessary decision. I bowed out of running a program I had […]
Why I Choose Sobriety – 3 Years
Smiled to myself, recalling the 50 cent drafts in college, and later the $5 lattes in sales, culminating in the $9 green juices I crave regularly as a yogi and Dad. Sobriety ain’t cheap, at least not as cheap as choosing the well-trodden, predictable path. I was handed a can of Budweiser in the […]
25 Min – Deepest Gratitude Meditation
This week’s theme is tapping into our Deepest Gratitude. Being grateful for what we have takes us out of that state of striving & frustration from not having everything we want right this second. This meditation reminds us: We are 1, we are complete, we have access to everything we need at all times. This […]
