“Throw roses into the abyss and say: ‘here is my thanks to the monster who didn’t succeed in swallowing me alive.”  — Friedrich Nietzsche What did Nietzsche mean with this phrase? In my interpretation, it isn’t meant to be as “out there” as it initially sounds. We should be thankful for the t...

Fear serves a good purpose — especially evolutionarily. Hear a twig snap in the woods? Ready your weapon and heighten your senses. The large animal bristling its hair at you? Bearing its teeth? Back off! Walking home at night and hear footsteps behind you? Get to somewhere public and call a c...

“I-I just don’t understand how it could possibly have happened?” I told my client, incredulous. We had just been rejected on our offer to purchase a home. As a Realtor, this is one of the hardest conversations to have — especially with a bright-eyed youngin’. “We wrote a nice, clean offer with,...

2023 has begun and for many of us, we are struggling much like Sisyphus with our own annual boulders. We are fresh, renewed, ready and excited.  The year starts and we explode with force, moving the boulder. Up. Up. Up. It gets harder and harder, and then eventually we let our old self — our...

What “New Years Resolutions” have you made for 2023? To lose 25 pounds? Get a promotion? Go to Europe? Quit caffeine?  Instead of viewing the ringing in of the new year as a fresh start with which we attack with vigor and enthusiasm, why not each day? We must not let ourselves be like a fre...

What would we be like at the end of today if we stopped wasting time on petty, trivial things? How about at the end of a week of it? A month? Or maybe if we reduced our wasting time by even 80% for 5 years? What would your life be like? What skills could you have? Who could you have met? W...

By doing things with haste, what are we missing? With a 20 mile drive to work, going 55mph means you arrive in ~21 minutes. Going 70 (on the 55 “suggested” road) you only save 4 minutes. This isn’t a rant about speeding in a car, either! When we hurry, hurry, scurry to get places, we end up mi...

Are you happy? When you wake up, are you eager for the day? Or, instead, are you filled with thoughts like: “I can’t wait for that vacation in the Bahamas this December.” “Man, going to see my favorite band next month is gonna be the best. The sooner the better.” “I think I need a pizza, toni...

100,000+. That’s approximately how many words in these daily meditations I’ve written over our last 300 days together. Back in 2012 I wrote a full fantasy novel of around 100,000. It was fun, but by the end it did begin to feel like work in many ways. But not this. This has been a joyous affai...

This goes for all of us — myself included. We tell ourselves every day we are Beautiful the way we are. Smart enough. Hardworking. Attractive enough. Fit enough. Financially sound enough… And so on. But, are you? Are you really? So, if your weight is acceptable to you, but someone gave you...