I’m admittedly an admin addict—something I didn’t know the repercussions of until recently. Give me a big admin project, like taxes, and I push forward until I get that dopamine fix the second I complete the task. This can be a positive habit (like during tax season), but negatively, I didn’t realize that I was …
I have this crazy goal that when the little one finally goes to school and someone asks him, “What does your mom do for work?” he will respond, “Her job is to play with me all day and love me.” The main factor in having this be the case is learning how to be fully present. …
For years, I would write my thoughts down with no particular sense of direction or order. It was when I started to practice a few specific approaches that things really started to change.
I’ll be the first to admit, when I decided to live overseas in 2010, I was on a search for freedom. I thought freedom was the key to having joy in your life. However, my reasoning constantly left me coming up short on joy. Yet, since returning almost ten years later, I’ve realised what I …
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Recently, I did a little generosity experiment: a 30-day, self-lead challenge to test some of my beliefs (or rather misbeliefs) about generosity. I had gotten to a point where my ideas about generosity felt stale. I knew I needed a good shake at my foundation, and this challenge was exactly what I needed.
We live in a world that seems to constantly be sucking us dry of joy. If we aren’t careful we can get pulled into a downward spiral of bad news. Because of this, so many of us are not accessing the joy that is available to us. For this reason I have created the “Wheel of Joy”.