As winter settles in here in Minnesota, I find myself slowing down. My body wants to sleep for longer. I want to slow down the pace of my life. I want to downshift to a lower gear. Once the first snow falls, I often feel a longing to go more inward, to hibernate, to...
Have you ever looked at a big goal, a big dream, something you want to heal or learn, and found yourself bailing before you even start? For example, I started writing these weekly Tuesday reflections about 4 years ago. I was going through “stuff” and needed a way to...
In many personal development and self-help communities, I often hear people telling one another to “do your work” or they’ll say, “That’s my/your work to do….” But have you ever stopped to wonder: What does it actually mean to...
You have no choice about what you want.When someone first suggested this to me, I balked and scrunched up my face in disapproval and disgust, with my knee-jerk response: Of course I have a choice in what I want. What a ridiculous idea. Then I sat with it. And...
Do you remember Aesop’s fable about the power struggle between the sun and the wind? In case you don’t, it goes something like this: One day, as the sun and the wind were arguing about who was stronger, they noticed a man in a coat hurrying down the road....