There’s an old Zen Proverb: If you don’t have time to meditate for 15 minutes … Then you need to meditate for an hour! All summer I’ve maintained a very steady meditation practice of 20 minutes every morning. (Although honestly, it’s not like there’s any enlightenment r...

There was a time when I was quite faithful to my blogging. For almost two years, every single day –– except for minor exceptions like Major Surgery –– I wrote something. Lately though –– with all the demands of my novel’s release (including numerous guest posts and...

When I’m directing, I have mixed feelings about improv. Sydney Lumet said it best –– and I’m totally paraphrasing –– but something like, “Do people really think the line that someone makes up on the spot is going to be better than the one the writer spent endless t...

I admit to being a huge fan of Neil Gaiman’s novels. In fact, I downloaded OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE immediately, longing for a few coherent hours to devour it.  I can’t wait to get lost in his writing. But here’s the thing that REALLY mystifies me: his twitter omnipresence. First, let...

One of the Grand-Daddies of all meditations is the “So Hum” one –– “I Am That” –– breathing in on “So” (silently) and exhaling on “hum” (silently). And that’s all well and good and ancient, but given that this has been one of the roughest weeks I’...

Rules don’t really apply anymore. Woke up at 4 am and after reading for a bit, realized it was time to get to work. Then, inexplicably, my website and email vanished completely around 6 am.   Not a happy moment, including one friend on the Face Place instant messaging me to let know his email bounced...

With the book launch, plus managing the Naples Design project, plus other creative Big Picture stuff, I’m constantly looking to upgrade everything in my bag of organizational tricks. And although I love the simplicity of the REMINDERS program that comes with my Mac, I’ve googled some other possibilit...

Today I was struck by –– and I don’t mean to oversell this but … – a stroke of New Age Genius. So much is happening that I needed to create some project boards to keep track of everything going on, but of course they had some Vision Board elements (how could they not?) But then I remembered som...

In all honesty, there are no monkeys involved in this blog post, although on two levels, I have been fascinated with the number 1000 regarding the unseen masses all day. Today was a indeed wild ride beginning with my first MindBodyGreen article being published online this morning. I didn’t know it wa...