Every once in a while you get a profound piece of advice, and one of the most powerful tips I ever got, was to immediately take the first action whenever a decision has been made. For example, considering we just celebrated New Year’s, you may have decided as a new Years’ goal, that you’d like […]
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Hustle Your Way Through Heartbreak
Girl, you gotta keep it moving. You can’t let heartbreak slow you down. Breakups happen. Heartbreak happens. Life happens. Pull yourself together, do what needs to be done, then come home and cry your eyes out, or do whatever you need to do to get yourself right. Go out with your girls, have some cocktails, […]
Be careful what you wish for.
Sometimes, I feel stuck or off course. Don’t you? But when I look back at my notes, usually from the start of the year, when I set my calendar and plan my goals, it turns out, I’m exactly where I said I would be. I guess it’s in my Achiever nature (Clifton Strengths) to be […]
This year, I joined a wine club instead ...
This year, I joined a wine club instead of a gym. Yep, that’s what I said and I am standing by my choice. Here’s why… First, I’m (relatively) new in town and I want to meet people. Most people will advise you to join some sort of club, or association, that centers around something you […]
Springy Start
Spring has sprung! After a few false starts, it feels pretty much like summer here in Southern California during the day. The season is only betrayed by still cold nights. I’m learning again how our human rituals, (even administrative ones!) relate to nature’s seasons. This wasn’t always apparent to me when I lived in the city, where productivity […]
Revisiting Valentine’s Past?
A young man came to me to run his romantic situation by me, a second chance at the “real deal” with someone from his past. Evidently, it was a significant relationship. I listened and it sounded familiar, so I offered him some of advice from what I call The Saga of Dawn and A. […]
Life, Death and Change
When I saw Wylie carrying the dead rooster’s body out of the bushes, I felt immediately sad but then it quickly passed as I realized it was part of the life on a hobby farm like ours. We’ve lost three chickens since that initial rooster, the last one at the paws of our own simple […]