The stakes are remarkably low — but even so, I would encourage you not to cheat.
It was the perfect manifestation of something I’ve been pondering all week.
Namely, whether Intuition — this month’s theme, meditation HERE — is akin to a muscle we can strengthen.
And now, here’s a chance to tes...
I admit my Tale of Three Trapped Mice has a ring of folklore about it.
It is not, however, a newly discovered Aesop’s Fable, but rather an extension of a phenomenon I’ve seen frequently, more often with humans.
Namely, three different responses to the same set of circumstances.
Most impo...
Lately, I’ve found that the lines between truth vs. fiction and life vs. art are getting even blurrier.
Take, for example, last weekend’s hike with Vlad and a wonderful creative client.
Although we’ve worked together on her five-book children’s series over countless Zoom sessions, we w...
It was already not a great morning.
My favorite pair of sunglasses simply fell apart on the way to my barber.
I’d made an online appointment the day before — or so I thought — for a 10 am haircut before doing a noon video podcast interview for the SGR Journal.
Instead, his shop was myste...
It was a singularly hilarious deflation of my ego.
The day began promisingly enough, inspired even.
I had drawn the Angel of Purpose from my deck, an image of an angel climbing a mountain.
I journaled extensively about related thoughts, defining my own heroic mission for the day:
Launching...
One thing is certain: the Universe (however you define it) has a sense of humor.
Yes, it’s often extremely dark and edgy — and that’s perhaps when it’s most necessary to laugh.
I experienced a more playful series of jokes this week — three of them, actually — as I contemplated the them...
It was a particularly auspicious beginning.
In fact, although I was merely an invited guest, in retrospect, even if I had been given a choice, I could not have made a better one.
I’m speaking about the first Broadway show I ever saw: the original production of Sunday in the Park with George.
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I find the paradox intriguing (and a little appetizing).
Specifically, the classic Iyengar & Lepper (2000) study on attraction vs. simplicity.
The researchers found that in an upscale market, shoppers were more likely to stop at a table offering samples of 24 vs. 6 jams, but they were actual...
The first temptation — to simply “wing it” — was easily fought off.
Interestingly, that phrase, I’ve since learned, comes from 19th-century theater actors who, not having enough time to learn their lines, would hover near the corner of the stage (“the wings”), ready to receive prompts from the scri...
