Jet lag and I have been at it again this week. I had been up most of the night but at 3:30am, I closed my book and decided to go to sleep. Reading always makes me sleepy and The Autobiography of a Yogi is about the spiritual path of Yoginanada through self-realization. The calm, relaxation-inducing [...]
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I have been in Australia for a week now, a beautiful unforgettable week here in Melbourne, a lovely laid-back city that has everything you could need plus an easy, happiness-inducing feeling about it. Yesterday, we drove to see the 12 Apostles. The pictures in this post are from the scene of these stunning rock formations [...]
I have been mesmerized with the Randy Pausch story since the first time I watched the unforgettable Last Lecture he delivered at Carnegie Melon University. There is only so much of Randy’s story that you can read before you have to stop and walk away and then force yourself to either promptly forget it all [...]
This is the first Halloween in I don’t know how many that I didn’t take out my dearly beloved witch statue out of the garage for prominent display. I told myself I’ll do it the day before, and then on the day of, and finally, immediately after Halloween, especially since the house next door still [...]
When I was 7 years old, I wrote a letter and mailed it to America to a cousin that I adored who was now living in a country that I only dreamt about. What I would give to enter the world of the 7-year old me writing this letter from Iran during the worst revolution [...]
“I am under the law of my own consciousness.” ~ Louise Hay Never, ever give up. That was my motto, my goal, my life’s work and accomplishment summarized in one phrase. Never giving up. So praise-worthy. So upright. So noble. And so dead wrong at times because sometimes giving up can be a really good [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.” ~ Oriah I saw these words a few minutes after finding out that Forbes published a story around my recent decision to ditch the corporate life. [...]
The most challenging part in returning home from an exhilarating event [insert your dream event here!] is what to do next? How do you take the sensory overload of information and inspiration and channel it to something useful, something original, something meaningful and valuable? How do you apply what you learned to your life? How [...]
What do you take home with you from a once in a lifetime experience? People’s faces? Smells and sounds of the place? Photographs you may have snapped? Goodies they may have given out at the event? Memories of great laughs and greater conversations yet? All of the above? Definitely all of the above plus one [...]
I went on a pilgrimage the first weekend of June 2011. A pilgrimage is generally defined as a journey in search of great moral or spiritual significance. It is often a path followed by devout and deeply religious people and I am, well, not religious but nonetheless, on a pilgrimage, I went.
If you are on a Smart Phone, click here to see the video. What many have said to me over the years: “I wish I could travel like you.” “You are so lucky to travel so much.” “There is no way I can travel with my children.” “Go on all your travels before you have [...]
Ideas are a dime a dozen. Everyone has them. Things we should do; things we should stop doing. Or things we could be doing, creating, producing, changing, enhancing, trying, living, or just dreaming. It does not take a special person to think of ideas. Even little kiddies have ideas – mostly bad ones with consequence [...]
