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Necessary Life Skills

Playfulness: How Are You Doing? Are you having enough fun? When was the last time you had a solid hour of sheer enjoyment? When you were so absorbed in moments of merriment, you forgot about everything else? The grown-up world is all about getting things done. Mark Buchanan...

It's been a few weeks since the big hoax was revealed: Manti Te'o's girlfriend — the one who died within hours of his grandmother's death, one who Te'o spoke of repeatedly, the one whose story became part of his Heisman campaign--never existed. This successful young...

Looking for ways to add more joy to your week? Here’s a sneaky pattern of life that you might miss if you don’t look for it: when one door closes in your life, very often a new door will open as a result. It’s a normal...

You have something you really want to do, but it seems impossible. Stop for a minute and think… What is that thing that you really want? Is it a personal dream that you long to fulfill? Is it losing a significant amount of weight? Is it resolving difficult...

Have you ever been stuck on an island with no way off? While I've never been marooned on an actual physical island, there have been many times when I' ve felt trapped, unable to change no matter what I tried. Everyone has. Think of an area...

March 28, 2012 "I failed!!" This phrase was shouted often at a class I attended recently. What was this strange class? Well… If you've seen the TV show "Whose Line Is It Anyway?"… It was that kind of class. More specifically, it was a class in improvisational...

February 28, 2012 I spent many years of my life juggling way too many balls at once, living on the adrenaline of constant activity and productivity. That was until my health fell apart over a decade ago and I had to slowly, painstakingly rebuild it. From that...

February 20, 2012 "Recurrent negative feelings--those that loop in the same cycles again and again without changing--are unmet knots of our past that got frozen in time for the precise reason that they were not met with kindness or acceptance." Geneen Roth On our road to becoming...

January 30, 2012 Here's a fun game to play today… Any time you catch yourself thinking a negative thought about a person, situation, or anything, immediately state an opposite, positive perspective about it. For example, if you are discouraged because you make a mistake or fail at...