Are you waiting to get a nod of approval from your parents for pursuing a career or a life outside their ideal one for you? Are you hoping to be embraced by your friends about your recent decision to travel the world or choose an unusual lifestyle? Are you expecting a positively happy reaction from [...]
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Jet lag confuses the living daylights out of me! I don’t mean the effect of jet lag on my body or brain because that alone can drive you dizzy with confusion. I mean I wish someone could explain to me why traveling from from North America to the South Pacific, where one loses many hours in [...]
I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the Astonishing Light of your own Being. ~Hafiz It turns out there is after all a name for that irrational, incessant and intrusive behavior which we so precisely insert between ourselves and success. It doesn’t take a psychology degree to recognize this [...]
There Is No Reason To Do What You Hate There is no reason for you in 2011 to be doing anything that you hate. No reason good enough, no explanation worthy enough that you will want to whisper back to yourself after the sun has set on your youth, your beauty, and your opportunities as [...]
Knowledge alone cannot always help you move through your fears in life. In fact, knowledge is precisely what we blatantly ignore whilst saying “I know, I know!” in response to the whole world around us. Sometimes, it takes more. Forget knowledge then! Have you ever tried the power of your imagination, which, for all you [...]
It is time to tell the tale of the Raw Vegan Challenge Month that was not to be in its entirety! So what happened, what did I learn, and how I plan to continue to take my eating habits to the next level of exploration and refinement.
Smart habits are the cornerstone of a successful and satisfying life. Smart habits make for rich living. Seeing how that is my tagline , I was thinking it might be a good idea to tackle the topic. I tackle it indirectly in every blog post but today, I want to take it to the next [...]
When you make up your mind to do something, like it or not: All barriers make way for you. All change becomes a matter of time and effort. All difficulties become possibilities. All excuses vanish into thin air. All fears begin to fear you. All temptation melts away. All things become accessible. In that precise [...]
It’s not what you give up; it’s what you gain that counts! Just for good measure, I will say it again: It is not about what you give up. It is all about what you gain. That is how I have been able to take some of the bravest and greatest steps in my life [...]
Going against the tide is no easy task but alas, it is much, MUCH, better than going with the flow the wrong way. How does your ideal day unfold? Actually, forget that. How does your ideal life unfold? What color is it? What texture does it have? What fragrant smells and what delicious tastes does [...]
The most wonderful relationships can run their course; the greatest love affairs can go sour; the sweetest friendships can meet a bitter end and even the most invincible people may leave each other through death or divorce but I never saw a day that I would fall out of love with a company that was [...]
My, what a big bold claim! Easy and radical in one little phrase? There should be nothing easy about radical. A radical change should require extremely hard work and sweat and only those prepared for such a grueling path should even consider it. And going vegan is not only radical, it is anything but easy [...]
How inconvenient that it takes extreme sickness, the onset of depression and the depth of frustration to make us wake up to the reality of the situations in our lives! How annoying that it takes a mountain of stress to make us realize the harm we are doing to our bodies and the poison we [...]
Something new and exciting for you. Something gutsy and brave for me. Trying new things is exciting. It give you energy, motivates you all over again, helps you grow and stretch beyond your current limits and creates a sense of anticipation largely because the outcome is unknown and as a result, all the more exhilarating. [...]
What Guilty Feeling? The guilty feeling is the uneasy, unsettling, not-good-enough feeling at the pit of our stomach when we fall short of delivering on all the promises that we made to ourselves – never mind that we made far too many unrealistic ones to begin with. Guilt, the type which follows no crime, no [...]
