I’m not the type of person who wakes up in the morning eager to make drastic changes. But when night after night I was unenthusiastically home watching TV, I started wondering whether this was how I wanted to live the rest of my life. This is my story…
I love growing, learning and doing whatever I can to become a better me, but there are some personal progress norms that I'm really lousy at, like goal setting and long-term planning. Sitting down and figuring out what to do with my life has always been something I’d…
Our mind, just like our muscles, works best when we take the time to exercise and strengthen it. But as mental workouts haven’t become trendy yet, many of us carry around horribly destructive habits of the mind that wreak havoc on our good vibes. Although we have good…
We fill many conversations with subtle deceptions. I loved that movie too! Of course it’s no problem if you arrive half an hour late, even though I’m already here. Your veggie lasagna is THE best I’ve ever tasted. None of these are true, so why do we feed…
Back in the day, enlightenment seekers hide away in caves for years on end seeking liberation. The wisdom they sat in stillness to find was profound and complex. Move forward 2000 years and hippies took on the trend too. Meditation for them was less about profound cave practices…
As You Choose the Way grows and flourishes, I spend more time talking about what choosing your own path means. I’ve realized that how I describe this idea can be confusing because of what my path looks like. Long-term travel, unconventional professional aspirations, custom-made relationship rules, daily meditation…
Generally, to live in peace and harmony with those that surround us, following similar rules or guidelines can be helpful. That is all fine and good if we communally agree what those living principals are. But in today’s world, many of the rules that dictate our behaviors and…
In our society, unity and connection have lost a lot of their importance. We wander through life disconnected from ourselves avoiding our thoughts and feelings cause they’re just too hard to handle. Then, we bring our disconnected selves into relationships with other fellow detached folks and expect to build…
For over 10 years now, I’ve been on a journey to find the ways of life that best work for me. I'd heard of the value of being true to yourself and so wanted to discover what that meant for me. This journey has taken me around the…
It happens to a lot of us. We open our eyes one day and find that we have stayed far longer than we ever thought possible in a job that is completely wrong for us. Not only are we unhappy at work, but we drag that unhappiness into…