
Can People Change? Living into Our Core Beliefs
We spend every minute of every day living into our beliefs about who we are. That is how we maintain our grounding in the world. Like the waves of the sea, we trust in them; they form a consistent presence for our identity and they will continue to brush up against the shores of our existence every day without exception. We know that our life experiences have ebb and flow, but we have confidence in the relative stability of those core beliefs about ourselves – they keep our

The Way of Your Inspiration
Let inspiration have it's way with you. However you may conceive your life to be right now - today - please understand that you are in the driver's seat. You have created the life that you are living today, and you will create the life that you will live into tomorrow ... and the day after. Whether or not you embrace your greatest life mysteries, whether or not you ignite your inspiration and choose to honor your well being - or whether instead you hole up and constrict th

Part 3 - The Abyss - Creating the World You Yearn For
Most of us can envision a better world - a world in which each of us has the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of our family, ourselves and even the well-being of our planet. As we stand on the edge of our personal dream, we can look across to the horizon and know that its not easy to get there from here. The terrain before us is difficult. Listening to the news we can see many hurdles before us: Trump Appointee Resigns After Bigoted Comments Surface, 5 Changes

The Trailhead of Your Journey is Right Here
Your journey to Inspiration starts right now -right here where you are sitting - this moment: ~ Excerpt from The Incredible Power of Inspiration: Creating the Life You Yearn For Imagine that your own Book of Life Past lay before you, inexplicably appearing in carefully fashioned leather binding, your name painstakingly engraved with gold-leaf letters on its rubbed brown leather cover, a sweet image of a dancer delicately embossed beneath your name. Inscribed on each worn parc

It's Time to Go To the Station - Your Journey Begins on Tuesday
All aboard! Your journey to Inspiration begins on Tuesday, October 24th. I can't say I don't have some trepidation awaiting the release of my new book, The Incredible Power of Inspiration: Creating the Life You Yearn For, to be on display at bookstores beginning next week. It has been over a year in development and I am hoping to take you on a unique journey deep into the heart of your own inspiration. It is both a joy ride and a thriller. We all have inspiration simmering

Pack Your 'Baggage' - Your Journey Awaits
Don't we all carry around a little bit of old 'baggage' from our childhood, that sour memory that has spoiled our day from time to time that we just can't seem to shake? Get ready to pack that old 'stuff', tuck it aside in an out-of-the-way closet and prepare to set out on a new journey of your own making - rich with bubbling desire and infused with the magic of inspiration, You can always bring out your old baggage again - if you want - like thumbing back through an old s

The Rush of Authentic Experience
Does your partner ever push your buttons? Or does a boss sometimes remind you of your last supervisor that didn't understand you? You know, he or she says something that makes your blood boil, your temper flare or your feelings to get hurt. If you answer is "No, I've never experienced that.", you can stop reading now. I bet you're still reading ... because it happens to all of us. We often understand that we are carrying around emotional baggage from experience in our pas

Ever Ask Yourself: Who Am I In the Matter of it All?
I've been mulling over a troubling problem ever since Trump got elected. When Trump won the election in 2016 a funny 'hollow' feeling swept through me like a tsunami: first surprise, then shock, and finally an emptiness that spread through my nervous system. I felt like I was entering a cultural frontier where no one really knew what to expect when Trump would take office. How would this surprising and unknown new reality manifest itself in the world - and in my life - in

Why did I write THE INCREDIBLE POWER OF INSPIRATION?
The idea to write this book came to me during an evening when several of my friends and I - some admittedly only acquaintances - were sitting in my back yard drinking Prosecco and watching the late afternoon sun go down. As my friends were talking I began to notice a chilling social process in play: one person would complain about something in their lives - like a crabby spouse - and the others, swirling their wine glasses like a Napa connoisseurs, offered up their analyses

The Mystery of Inspiration
We all have a powerful source of inspiration thriving deep within us, however, sometimes the daily bump and grind of our lives relegates us to waiting for that ‘future time’ when we can live fully inspired lives. I’ve always wondered: ‘Why wait, are you doing something better right now’? There is nothing in life as powerful as our inspiration, our desire to answer burning questions, and we all yearn to live lives that engage those heartfelt desires to create enduring meaning