This guided meditation is 6 minutes long with an extra 4 minutes more of music by my talented friend David Buchs You can stream it here or download in the link below. Click toDownload

Mostly, I thought “Command” might be my undoing. There was also one Saturday morning where the letter A kept repeating itself but autocorrect was pretty much able to adjust that as I typed. No such tech help came last week, however. Even though four years of newsletters, online courses, and god kn...

Charles Dickens understood it well: As the opening of A Tale of Two Cities reminds us: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Nowhere was this more true than this past week as NYC experienced apocalyptic, Blade Runner skies. Vlad seemed to sorta understand that since the smoke l...

This guided meditation is 8 minutes long with an extra 5 minutes more of music by my talented friend David Buchs You can stream it here or download in the link below. Giving-Meditation-1-1Download

It was so out of character for me, I could hardly believe it. Real life experience was contradicting several of my most unshakeable core beliefs about myself and how I function in the world.  In fact, it took several minutes of multiple facts staring me in the face before I finally had to admit ...

Sometimes noise-canceling headphones are not enough. Especially when the asking is loud and clear, it can cut through anything. You see, although 95% of the time Vlad drops the ball directly in front of his chosen candidate for fetch, occasionally he will approach from behind. He always gives his ...

I probably should blame myself more. And I’m honestly not sure how much this is innate or because of my bad parenting but… Vlad has a level of Personal Confidence that easily wanders into Entitlement. To be frank, I find the way that Vlad asks for anything––and you could substitute other verbs for...

Looking back at the life lessons I’ve consistently failed to learn, certain themes dominate. One of them might kindly be called Optimistic Overconfidence, particularly around timing. I did, however, once demonstrate an extremely rare moment of early mastery in this arena. Namely, during college I ...

I found the Academy Awards this year both moving and disorienting. While I was pleased with many of the winners, given that the theme I’ve been exploring this month is Resilience (Meditation HERE), several of the “Never Give Up On Your Dream” Victory Speechesinspired reflection, if not outright skeptici...