Category: Positive psychology

The Essence of Place

One of the things I used to love about going to San Francisco on business was flying out Saturday night and buying a Sunday Chronicle newspaper. The Datebook pink section advertised special events. I could open up the paper, drink

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Installing Love

Tech Support: Yes, how can I help you? Customer: Well, after much consideration, I’ve decided to install Love. Can you guide me through the process? Tech Support: Yes. I can help you. Are you ready to proceed? Customer: Well, I’m not

Lou Bedor’s 10 Life Lessons

Last week I went to the funeral for Lou Bedor, father of my best friend Margaret. It was the best life celebration I’ve ever attended. One of the highlights was this top 10 list from the euology given by his

Let your experience be a guidepost, not a hitching post. –proverb

Crazy Sexy Life

I’ve been following the posts on Kris Carr’s Crazy Sexy Life blog since last summer. She is funny and smart and has surrounded herself with some very knowledgable experts in health and nutrition. Today I joined her website as a

Hummingbird reminder

I bought a Christmas card for a special friend that has this writing on the paper wrapper that came with it: Legends say that hummingbirds float free of time, carrying our hopes for love, joy, and celebration. The hummingbird’s delicate

Living in your nature

Take a moment to look outwards into the natural world. See the tree…watch the flower… observe the grass…feel the breeze. Notice how everything in nature does what it does naturally and peacefully. Peace is nature’s nature. It grows, blooms, decays

Happy Planet Index

Today I watched this TED talk where statistician Nic Marks questions the way we measure our progress: He included the last line of this quote by Robert Kennedy. Here is the full quote: The Gross National Product includes air pollution

Do Something Silly Every Day

Our thing for the month of September is to Do Something Silly Every Day. It’s harder than it sounds, and we’ve discovered that there is a very fine line between doing something silly and doing something stupid. My criteria is

Your Heart is the Key to Your Home Frequency

I’m enjoying the book Frequency, by Penney Peirce. There is a section where it has an exercise to find your own home frequency. Those steps are: Say to yourself: “In this moment and in this body I am 100 percent

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