It was a beautiful week, filled with deep and often touching conversations. It’s funny how choosing a value for the week becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. From Apr 29th to May … Read more
Category: Relationships
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Week #17: Compersion
It was an amazing week. I was surprised by how easy it was to feel compersion even if, at times, that wasn’t my initial reaction. It was fairly easy to … Read more
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Week #15 and #16 – Openheartedness and Ease
I’m combining the updates for weeks #15 and #16.
Week #15 was about openheartedness. It was a really heart-centered week given the value in focus. What I particularly liked about … Read more
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Week #12: Intensity
Yup, I got what I asked for. That was one intense week. I guess I should be happy that I survived.
In all honesty, I didn’t get many work-related projects … Read more
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Week #11: Fun
My birthday week was nothing less than a massive roller coaster. And roller coasters are fun, aren’t they? Well, however I interpret it, it’s undeniable that the week was memorable.… Read more
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Week #9: Experimentation
I picked the right value for the week. There were a lot of firsts for me which I found easy to embrace thanks to the lens of experimentation. Here are … Read more
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Week #7: Engagement
The power of engagement is that it gives us a deeper, richer experience of life. With recent events highlighting the importance of this value in my life, I’m glad that … Read more
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Love for love’s own sake
I’ve been thinking about love a lot lately. I recently finished listening to Susan Piver’s The Wisdom of the Broken Heart and am currently listening to Sharon Salzberg’s Real Love… Read more
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Week #4: Grace
It’s been a week of highs and lows. Periods of calm interspersed between periods of emotional chaos. I felt the calmest when I was out on long walks. The weather … Read more
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Week #2: Order
I loved this past week. I decluttered my room for at least 15 minutes every day; usually, as I chatted with friends or listened to audiobooks. I finished listening to … Read more
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How Coronavirus taught me forgiveness
Coronavirus taught me a valuable lesson – forgiveness. After about two years of not speaking with my father, I decided to speak with him today. It was easy and hard … Read more
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Staying away from other people’s roller coasters
My friend Dimi is a wise, wise person. I was telling him about how I was fretting about someone else’s anxieties and he asked me why I was getting anxious … Read more
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Please don’t help me
… Read moreThere is a time to provide advice and offer an opinion, and there is a time not to. Don’t be too quick to offer unsolicited advice. It certainly will not
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We are more similar than different
I watched the movie Arrival this afternoon which is about aliens who arrive on Earth and how the linguistic professor, Louise Banks, decodes their language to understand what they’re trying … Read more
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Friendships
… Read more“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
– Anais
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Lessons from Beth March
I just had a good cry this afternoon. I am reading Little Women for the second time (the first time was more than a decade ago) and today I read … Read more
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Self-forgiveness
… Read more“If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”
– Charlotte Brontë
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How to create a connection with others
“Connection is why we’re here; it is what gives purpose and meaning to our lives.”
~ Brene BrownWhen I was a teenager, I was generally an angry and competitive … Read more
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Do you make other people’s problems your own?
I had an interesting experience this morning which got me thinking quite deeply about how I end up making other people’s problems my own. A friend told me how an … Read more