Do you feel like there’s something missing in your life? Perhaps it’s a job or business you believe you’d really enjoy, a loving relationship, or success and recognition for what you do. And if you already have those things you’ve always wanted, are you still craving new experiences or connections (or more stuff)? Well, it’s natural for the mind to…
How Aligned With Your Goals Are You?
I love stories of archers. They remind me of how focused I need to remain to achieve my goals. So I’d like to share this one with you. In the Mahabharata, one of the great epics of India, master Dronacharya decided to test his students in their archery skills. After he hung a wooden bird from the branch of a…
Do You Tell Yourself These Lies?
We all want to succeed in what we set out to accomplish, right? Perhaps it’s a loving relationship or a career or a business or a joyful and meaningful life. I don’t know anyone who would consciously choose to “fail” in the fulfillment of their dreams. Do you? And yet what I hear time and again is: “I don’t know…
How Do You Keep Yourself Busy But Balanced?
Are you so busy that you keep telling yourself you don’t have time to do the things you’d really like to do? Or are you on the opposite side of the spectrum, watching the days go by while you accumulate things on your to-do lists without ever tackling or finishing them? I can relate to both scenarios. There have been…
Are You Everyone’s Surrogate Mom?
Are you the one who’s always ready to give a hand, fix a problem, or take responsibility for others? Well, that used to be me in a nutshell. I had a lovely friend and roommate in college who used to make fun of me whenever this tendency showed up in my relationships. She’d say, “Once a mother, always a mother…”…
How Do You Deal With Negative Habits?
I used to smoke cigarettes when I was younger. My mother smoked, her friends smoked, my friends’ parents smoked, so most of my friends and I started smoking when we were teenagers. It seemed such a normal thing to do. Of course, over the years it became a real addiction and at some point I was smoking an average of…
Are You Willing To Be Free?
Freedom is a wonderful concept. We all love it, don’t we? It’s our true nature and our ultimate soul purpose. But to be really free doesn’t mean to do whatever we want whenever we want it, which is what the ego-mind makes us believe. I can think of many instances as a teenager when I’d fight and rebel against my…