Why working on yourself doesn’t work (and the simple thing that does)

Why working on yourself doesn’t work (and the simple thing that does)

Like every human being I’ve ever met, I am sometimes discontented. No big deal. But during a recent spell of gritchiness, I got the idea that I shouldn’t feel that way. Given my deepening understanding of the spiritual principles behind the human...
Managing for Happiness or Why I’ve Stopped Trying to Grow my Business

Managing for Happiness or Why I’ve Stopped Trying to Grow my Business

Some of you know that I’ve been undergoing a sea change in the past several months. The short version is that I’ve awakened to a deeper understanding of Thought and how it creates our experience. Further, and this blows my mind, I’ve come to see that...
Why moods don’t have to mess up your business

Why moods don’t have to mess up your business

Some years back I experienced epic premenstrual syndrome. Not only was I frequently sad, I was angry as hell. Some days it was all I could do to be even marginally civil. Shoot, many days I couldn’t even manage that. By the time I got my period, I was mentally...
Sally and the invisible visible mess

Sally and the invisible visible mess

On Saturday I swept the deck. Yesterday I swept the carport. Today I swept the front porch. That may not impress you, but it made an impression on me, and it got me to thinking about invisible visible messes. One kind of invisible visible mess is the mess that accrues...
When unfair things happen in life and business: How to get free of the undertow

When unfair things happen in life and business: How to get free of the undertow

I’ve been noticing lately a tendency to attach to the drama of Miles’s accident. It’s as though I’m not satisfied that the Universe has sufficiently acknowledged the unfairness of it all. It’s like part of me is holding out for a bigger...