The funny thing about walking 10,000 steps every day is that I don’t lose weight doing it. 10K is a minimum recommendation after all. But I’m healthier for having done it. At the very least I’m not eating or drinking when I walk, so those calories float away. But walking 10-12K isn’t going to burn…
“Every morning I walk like this around the pond, thinking: if the doors of my heart ever close, I am as good as dead Every morning, so far, I’m alive. And now the crows break off from the rest of the darkness and burst up into the sky – as though all night they had…
It’s no secret in my world that I’m a sunrise junky. There’s nothing wrong with sunsets, and I love a good one as much as anyone, but there’s something to be said for earning the show the way getting up early for a sunrise does. There’s also the mindset of the beginning, rather than the…
“The intelligent and the brave Open every closet in the future and evict All the mind’s ghosts who have the bad habit Of barfing everywhere.”– Hafiz, The Warrior “You’ll see the miracles that happen to you when your senses come unclogged.” – Anthony De Mello, Awareness A month ago I had one of those head…
The chess board and the calendar are one and the same. For each demands strategy and each is a game, of reaction and discipline and boldness in kind. I marvel at masters, while struggling to keep more than two moves in mind I marvel at poets as well, for my words betray me as…
“No story lives unless someone wants to listen.” – J.K. Rowling There are two ways to look at this Rowling quote. There’s the story we try to sell to the audience – read my blog or my book, buy my product or service, hire me for the job, let’s do lunch… whatever. The story we…
The thing about Mondays is they mean different things to you based on your expectations for the week. Are you attacking an exciting project or slogging through a job you don’t like? Are you eagerly anticipating that could seal your rise in your career or dreading the thought of work that doesn’t inspire you? Are…
I’ve come late to Hafiz, and that both saddens and delights me. Three writers I’m following separately pointed me towards his poetry, and I finally woke up and paid attention. Where was that attention all those years when Hafiz was right there all the time? But that’s the way life is in all things. Writing…
Walking 10,000 steps a day doesn’t make the scale move much, but the walking offers benefits beyond incremental movement of the scale. Writing a blog every day doesn’t move the needle much on reader count or followers, but the writing has changed me in ways I hadn’t anticipated. Reading books every day seems elementary on…
“The true joy in life is to be a force of fortune instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.” – George Bernard Shaw I’ve used this quote to challenge myself a few times over the years. Shaw didn’t mince…
