The year was 2003 and I had just returned from a knee operation in the hospital. Little did I know I was about to face the longest night of my life, what the Spanish poet and Roman Catholic mystic Saint John of the Cross called ‘The Dark Night of the Soul‘. It must have started close [...]
Continue reading...24. June 2007
Think less, move more. Who would have known that happiness isn’t mapped to parts of your brain like depression and sadness, but linked to your motor system? When you’re moving, you’re happier – so keep moving. Take what you find is useful, and leave the rest behind. Some people avoid the self-improvement books section like the [...]
Continue reading...17. June 2007
How can a person be completely comfortable with being by herself while someone else refuses to be alone even for a minute? Why do some people let themselves be persuaded to do things that are against their own better judgment just to make others happy? And just what is it that makes one person bounce [...]
Continue reading...5. June 2007
I was thumbing through Robert Dilts’ Alpha Leadership: Tools for Business Leaders Who Want More from Life when I came across this concise explanation of why leading yourself first is important before leading others. The central idea in the story of Monty Roberts, the ‘Horse Whisperer’, is that although horses will run away from strange humans [...]
Continue reading...4. June 2007
Talk about having an adventure day and stretching – literally! I just got back from a 2 day Brazilian Jujitsu seminar by John Will, an amazing martial artist and instructor – this guy not only knows his stuff but knows how to teach it too! I’ve never done Brazilian Jujitsu before so it was a [...]
Continue reading...3. June 2007
Don’t waste your time living other people’s dreams for you; live yours. It will be worth it. Once in a while you read something that changes the way you look at the world and your life. If you don’t read anything else today, read Adrianna’s What Am I Doing Here about her life of travel [...]
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24. June 2007
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