The biggest compliment to me is to see me as original, fresh, and creative. In one word, innovative. Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way. Tom Freston, entertainment industry executive (in 2006 Time magazine...
Are you overwhelmed by your frenetic life? Are you burned out from everything you think you need to do to succeed in life? Do you doubt that it could be any different? The antidote is here! And it is in a book I wrote. This is the beginning of the rest of your life....
Are you considering doing a cleansing spring detox? You can’t go too far in health circles without hearing about doing detoxification. You may hear about getting rid of the heavy metals, the chemicals, the nasty stuff that has come into our bodies because we are...
My life was changed forever in a class to become a teacher of a personal development course. At one point in the training, we each were asked to stand up and state, “I stand up for my greatness.” At that point, the facilitator determined if we were authentic in making...
Do you remember when you could drive on a road trip and get up the next day and be fresh to drive the next stretch - and now you get tired when you drive too long? Does reading also make you tired? Do you have less fun in life because you feel down and sluggish and...
Where do emotions come from? Are they hard-wired reactions to what is going on around us? Do people and circumstances provoke the same emotions in everyone? What can we do to manage our emotions, so they don’t run us? Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett says that we...
History Creativity Liveliness Color Fun St. Michael statue La Parroquia, the parish church of San Miguel Arcangel El Jardin (Plaza Allende) Mojigangas of a bride and groom A mix of the old and the new A mural at Instituto Mural at a parking lot General Ignacio...
Did you see the Bill Murray movie in which he was sentenced to repeat the same day until . . . he didn't know what. He went to bed at the end of the day, and woke up again and again the same day, Ground Hog Day. He was a grumpy reluctant reporter sent to a cold...
Baby boomers probably don't have to worry. We grew up in a different time. Maxwell Smart had his shoe phone. Mobile phones were imagined in science fiction. Today's young people cannot be surgically separated from their smart phones, it seems. Look at...
Our world is constantly clamoring for our attention: texts, phone calls, emails, advertisements. Then the kids want something from us too. Not to mention our significant other and family and friends. We can be lost in this morass of stuff, the content of our lives....
