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Justice and Dignity, the Endless Shortage
You will never regret offering dignity to others. We rarely get into trouble because we overdo our sense of justice and fairness. Not just us, but where we work, the others we influence. Organizations...
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Finding Your Way Through to Happiness
Ernest Hemingway once said that happiness in intelligent people is the rarest he knew. While it is true that many of us tend to overthink, let’s challenge the idea that being more intelligent or...
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Awakening Your Sacred Power of Acceptance
Acceptance is the root and the foundation of many wisdom traditions, including Buddhist compassion teachings, the Law of Least Effort, and Christ Consciousness. But regardless of your orientation to...
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I Really Suck at Letting Friends Go
I really suck at letting friends go. Since I was little, I’ve had the deepest attachments to my friends, old and new. When I was 16, I’d take off in the middle of the night, escape my apartment and...
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No More Lies After Loss
‘The Life we live, is the lesson we teach,’ my friend Jim Kwik mentioned in one of his writings. I read it just before I was going to sit down and write to you. And it hit me. The life I live. Is the...
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How I Managed to Do Something I Love and Built a Life I Found Worth Living
It is going to sound strange but I am here to tell you how I managed to change my entire life by simply staying in bed. And no before you click away – this isn’t one of those get rich quick tales where...
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10 Reasons Why Procrastination is a Superpower
First, I need to address the elephant in the room. After I post this here’s what many comments and tweets will immediately say: “I want to read this but I will put it off until later.” Or some...
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Loss Happens. It’s THE COST OF DOING BUSINESS. And Life.
Restaurant budgets have a line item called “spoilage” or “wastage” to track food that’s gone bad or is unusable. Sometimes it includes breakage of glasses, stolen cutlery and those kinds of things....
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Lunches with the Homeless
By Jan Shepherd, as told to Elaine Lipworth Three months ago, I was walking along Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, shopping for a gift, when a grey-haired man wearing jeans and a jacket...
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How to Defeat Self-Doubt, Trade Perfectionism for Possibility, and Live Your...
When we were younger, we really felt it, didn’t we? And by “it”, of course, I mean life. Once upon a time, we had big feelings about everything from our birthdays to our breakfast cereals. We felt...
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: How Your Distorted Body Image Is Harming You
Do you ever have thoughts like these? My life would be better if I looked better. I will never look as good as _____________. My _________ is/are so ugly. I am so fat. The scale can’t be right. I look...
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How to Set Boundaries at the Office
Is there one person at work, no matter where you work, who drives you crazy? Or do you always seem to have a boss who is completely awful and can reduce you to tears with their difficult personality?...
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Are You Addicted to Thinking?
Ever feel like your mind just will not shut off? Most of us are addicted to thinking. Our addiction tends to intensify when our mind perceives there is a problem to be solved. We want answers. We want...
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Four Tips for Surmounting Boredom or Irritation
Samuel Johnson wrote, “It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery, and as much happiness as possible.” One “little thing” that can be a source of...
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Learn Your Capacity of Deflection and Reception
In the depth of love, your inclination is to abandon every need for safety, every mechanism of security that you have. You’re now open to “incidents” — sometimes called accidents — that naturally take...
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5 Mindful Mood Boosters That Make It Too Easy to Be Happy!
In today’s society it’s so easy to become wrapped up in our thoughts, dwell on negativity, or become overwhelmed by stress. How could we not when our worlds are filled with stimulation, external...
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Connectivity Is the New Resolution
Writers Note & Photo Credit: I had finished this blog piece some time ago, but for reasons yet unknown to me, I kept not turning it in to my Positively Positive Editor. Then came the LA Art Show...
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What Do You Really Want?
“Life is the sum of your choices.” – Albert Camus I spent the highest amount of my years very disempowered and lost, not knowing what I truly wanted in life. During the time I was working for a...
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The Movie of Your Life, Part II
I used to worry a lot about what people think of me. I felt that I could be damaged or even destroyed by someone’s words, or my failure to achieve an arbitrary level of success. I tried to present the...
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On Love, Dreams, and Avoidance: Taking Action Anyway in 2018
My first dream, before beauty and disability advocacy was to be an author. So much so that I never wrote. It was precious. Holy. It had to be perfect. Sometimes, the thing we love the most, is the very...
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