Visualization – BS or BFF?
Many a new age guru claim that “the secret” to getting the things you want is to “visualize” them – to see them clearly in your mind, to...
“You can ask better questions than that...”
I started reading Tribe of Mentors by Timothy Ferris recently. It was a christmas gift that did not fail to deliver, even in the first...
So... no bag?
In Sausalito there is a store that sells socks. Just socks. It’s called Soxalitio. (See what they did there?) In this sock(s?) store...
Don’t ruin your movie with it
There’s a concept I learned in business school that’s really useful to keep in mind - it’s called Sunk Costs. If that sounds familiar,...
Stopping and Frog Jumps
Was thinking of a great lesson Tosh Stone taught me about stopping - which I do a lot. Tosh trained me in Kung Fu and... well, life I...
The stone is always the same distance from your face
Most of us (and here I mean those reading this) have done a lot of self-work. Or are working hard at improving in some other way. Facing...
Sexism done right...
I was 8 or 9 I think, when I first consciously saw sexism, though I had no idea what was going on at the time. I think my Mom was taking...
What is your problem? (How to ask the right question)
Ever ask yourself that question - ‘What IS my problem?’ I do. I seethe with it when I’m frustrated with myself. Or I’ll yell it at...
The most beautiful man I've ever met
One of the odder things I’ve done with my life was to live in a log cabin on a 60 acre guest ranch straddling a beautiful cove on the...
How to get lucky
I had some random thoughts on luck that I wanted to share with you. We tend to think of luck as the dice coming up seven, or the lottery...
Singing for your life
I’ve recently become addicted to the television show “The Voice.” …actually, do we even have “television” anymore? I haven’t had a TV...
My first day of school...
Recently I found out that my alma mater, BGI has closed. It took me a while to process this, but I wanted to share my first day of school...
Practice makes perfect - but it’s boring...
I just saw a 2 minute clip of Katelyn Ohashi (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ic7RNS4Dfo). Katelyn is... well, a gymnast I suppose,...
The best pebbles of the day...
Do you ever feel like a cliche? Sometimes I think Anna and I are just too cliche to live. She runs a healing practice teaching Reiki and...
Sometimes a heart is there to break
I’m listening to Erik Satie’s Gymnopies. Stunning little silhouettes of minimalism and longing. Remember George Winston? I took my first...
Falling up...
A friend of mine, Lisa, lived south of us a ways in one of the neighborhoods close to Dodgers’ Stadium. It was a pretty rough street and...