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Winning & Influencing Mindfully
Season 8 Episode 454
I have no idea how many times I say something, or write an email, or post, with irritation on my mind. Or hit the numbers for Verizon, with exasperat…
1 year, 7 months ago
The Problem With Good Intentions
Season 8 Episode 452
The problem with good intentions is that they’re subjective. Plus, I may have good intentions but what ‘good’ are they if my impact is still harmful?…
1 year, 7 months ago
The Path to Waking Up
Season 8 Episode 452
The Path to Waking Up
Each of the eight steps of the mindfulness path - the path to waking up - feels important. But the first, which emphasizes that …
1 year, 7 months ago
Letting Go When the Stakes are High
Season 8 Episode 451
Right now feels like a moment when I need to assert my beliefs and work very, very hard to create change. The stakes feel too high to do anything els…
1 year, 7 months ago
The Reason Things Are Hard
Season 8 Episode 450
The birds in the trees, the light at dawn, the gorgeousness of morning: these things are all mixed up right now with dysfunctional politics, a precar…
1 year, 8 months ago
Why Being Human is The Only Way
Season 8 Episode 449
Each day of being relatively balanced feels to me like a day of possibility. What I notice is that when I’m balanced, when I’m really feeling human -…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Insecurity Of Everything
Season 8 Episode 448
There’s nothing I want more, really, than for things to be secure and predictable and easeful, for me and for everyone. But that’s the funny thing ab…
1 year, 8 months ago
Why Change is All the Things
Season 8 Episode 447
Change: in my experience, it's sometimes good, sometimes bad, sometimes welcome, sometimes super hard, but nearly always, out of my control.
And yet, …
1 year, 8 months ago
Suffering As the Most Ordinary Thing
Season 8 Episode 446
For a long time I was convinced that suffering was for other people. I thought, I have enough to eat, a nice home, a great partner and child. Where i…
1 year, 9 months ago
The End of Suffering
Season 8 Episode 445
The way I see it, we have two choices. We can rail against reality and exhaust ourselves.
Or we can find a way to leaving the room, the house, the of…
1 year, 9 months ago