Some thoughts as I prepare to invest the past into the future- Happy 2014!!! I have found that constantly checking my life against "oughts" and "shoulds" leaves me feeling empty. It took me a long time to figure out what it means to " be me", to live true to my highest expression of myself. In many […]

Some thoughts about work…

Something a client said last week really struck a chord with me. I’m paraphrasing but essentially he said “taking this time to be in Hollywood doing all of this ‘right-brain’ stuff must be a great compliment to all of the left-brain work you do as an Internet marketing coach.” WOW! I had never thought of that.

I have spent much of the last 2 months working on a national "Happiness Project". It's a huge undertaking with many collaborators scattered across the country and around the world. There are many aspects to the project including a social experiment, an e-booklet and on ongoing "Happiness Education" series, ALL free. I'll fill you in

Flow is the mental state in which we  are fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus and full involvement. In other words we are absorbed in the present, no thoughts about the future or the past, or even about the present, just an absorption in the present. Recent studies have demonstrated a direct link

Yesterday I helped my local library host a small discussion group on Happiness using TED Talks as the springboard. It was incredibly interesting. First, if you are not familiar with TED, let me give a brief background. TED hosts conferences under the slogan "ideas worth spreading". It was founded in 1984, the T-E-D  is an

I was surprised to learn that more than 4,000 people per day use Google, Bing and Yahoo to search on "make me happy".  After I heard that I Googled it myself. What are people finding when they search on "make me happy"? Well, I found the song "Makes Me Happy" by Drake Bell showed up

The Greatest Gifts of All are those things that add contentment, fulfillment, meaning and of course happiness to our lives. My mission through this project is to identify these "Greatest Gifts" and provide awareness, tools and tactics that help all who are interested to more fully receive these gifts into their lives. When it comes

Throughout the 9 Greatest Gifts I mention meditation and "sitting in the silence." The fact is I'm writing at 5:50 AM, only a few minutes after I finished my morning meditation. This morning, after my morning meditation, I went down to my office, sat in front of my computer, and went to Facebook. Only minutes