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It’s Never Too Late to Shift Your Purpose
It’s never too late to shift your purpose… yes I am talking to you! What is motivating you today? What was driving you to get out of bed this morning, get out the door, and start your day? Was it...
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Regrets of the Living. More Important Than Regrets Of The Dying…
In six months I’ll be 50 but I already know what I’ll regret. This is the cliche answer. “If anything had been different I wouldn’t be who I am today.” If I wanted to, I could put an “!” at the end of...
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Examining Our Expectations and What It Means to Deeply Let Go
Sweet Seekers! (As in, fellow humans looking for lightness and direction-refinement…) Here’s your second installment of Free & Clear. (Last week was RETROSPECTION). This week’s theme: LETTING GO...
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What Are Your Dreams Trying to Tell You?
My dreams are often startling in their ability to predict, reflect and inform me of my next steps, blind spots and vivid aspirations in waking life. Before I was laid off from Lyft and given the “I...
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Are You Doing Happiness Wrong?
I thought my world had ended back in January. I had this job and career that made me comfortable and paid well. It was not necessarily a job that I loved, but it made me feel secure and gave me the...
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Full vs. Enough
One of the lessons of Thanksgiving is that we eat too much. We eat until we’re full, experiencing the sensation of too much. It’s easy to confuse our desire for that that feeling with the feeling of...
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The Key to a Happy Minimalist Lifestyle Is to Do It Your Own Way
Before minimalism became a hype, I was already a very minimalist person. I’ve always been very selective when it comes to people and things. I would prefer to have one true friend to ten fake ones. Or...
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How to Get over Any Kind of Heartbreak
At Thanksgiving dinner, my group of dear friends and I went around the table and shared what we were most grateful for over the past year. One 31-year-old musician said that he was most grateful for...
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A Happiness Paradox for Thanksgiving: Happiness Doesn’t Always Make Us Feel...
In my study of happiness and human nature, I’m always striving to identify fundamental principles. For instance, I identified the Eight Splendid Truths of Happiness. The First Splendid Truth is: To be...
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Is It Time to Wake up to a New Reality?
Rise and shine! I’m thinking it may be time to wake up to a new reality—unless you’re living a super cool life and you’re happy the way things are. So are you thinking, Hey, I wake up to a new reality...
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Permission to Pause
Somehow, the year has flown by and the holidays are right around the corner. This can be an insanely busy season for many people, which makes this period of calm before the storm, the perfect time to...
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All Goodbyes Lead to Hellos
I’m good at goodbyes. And I should be, I’ve been saying them regularly since I was eight years old. When my parents divorced and we began the shuffle back and forth between houses. Saying goodbye to...
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Me vs Me: A Healing Journey through the Power of Thoughts.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. – Einstein Therefore I divide my life into two parts synchronized with each...
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Let Your Regrets Shape You, Not Break You.
Regrets? I have many. You probably do too. Some I can live with more easily. Others keep me restless and breathless, with a lump in my throat and a racing heart. Why are some regrets more difficult...
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How to Avoid Job Hopping From Unhappiness
You know the feeling: you’ve been at your job for long enough that you’re comfortable with your job requirements, but nonetheless, you feel unsettled. Maybe tension has started to develop between you...
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Why You Must Play Every Day
Every day is an uphill battle for me. I don’t know if this is true for everyone, but I need a spark to start the ignition. To win the day, you must PLAY: That was yesterday. When I was a kid I loved...
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What Needs to Change? (And How to Look at What Sucks in Your Life without...
Heyyyy. Freedom Fighters. Actually, I don’t love the term “Fighter”. Maybe “Crusaders” is better. Or “Lovers”. Let’s go With Freedom Lovers… Dear Freedom Lovers, This week’s Free and Clear exercise...
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Dinner With Oprah & Thoughts on Her New Book “The Wisdom of Sundays”
Guess who came to dinner last week? Oprah Winfrey. When I was at Oprah’s estate in Montecito to film my Super Soul Sunday show, I told Oprah that I wanted to introduce her to some other people who...
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Change or Suffer
A few months ago I walked into an office and saw the quote just as it appears in the picture frame. If I composed that quote, I probably would have said, “Change or Die.” Suffer vs Die (not physical...
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Initiate Your Own Uniqueness
The anatomy of the various human body parts has physical reasons for existing and psycho-emotional, energetic reasons for existing. These parts are interrelated throughout your life and play off of...
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