The Most Important Virtue
Maya Angelou said, "Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage." At any...
Awareness and Respect for Yourself [Audio]
Have Awareness of Opportunities That Will Make You Happier Ask yourself what you need to learn, what you need to do to become more skillful. All to have more joy in your personal and professional life. For me it was the awareness that things...
Acceptance and empowerment, both at the same time.
Acceptance and empowerment, both at the same time. We have no choice but to accept whatever was and is, as so. It would be insane to deny it. When you're presented with something it needs to be taken at face value. Being Happy and Have...
Show Our Kids That They Matter
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New Year, Clean Slate
It's the New Year, and starting off with a clean slate feels really good, doesn't it? Let's not take anything with us from last year, and let's live this year to the fullest. One of the principles that I live by may not make a lot of sense to...
Setting Intentions & Manifesting
When we mindfully set intentions, it's like planting seeds. We have the opportunity to start "sprouting" something that we want to bear fruit. There is a real way that we can plant our intentions with more power, and there are real ways that we...
Everything we think about falls into one of two buckets.
The second we are thinking, we are out of the present moment. Therefore, whatever we are thinking about inherently falls into one of two buckets: either it already happened or it hasn't happened yet. Often times we get confused and jumbled up...
Every Body is a Wonderland.
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Choose your actions wisely.
It's fundamentally true and so critical, but most of the time we don't realize it: every action we take is creating our life. If we choose to work or choose to procrastinate, if we choose to be brave and have the tough conversation or if we...
Handling something like Tribeca.
Halloween on Tuesday, as we got our kids ready to head out trick or treating, we got word about what was happening in Tribeca. Running into other parents, asking in hushed voices if there was any update, wondering if anyone else was worried...
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