What motivates you? I suppose there are any number of ways to answer this question. As a younger person, I was motivated by fear: of failure, of being unloved and unappreciated, of not-fitting-in, of mediocrity, of dying unknown. It is amazing what an unrelenting motivator fear was; it never let up and created stress, anxiety, … Continue reading Living My Mission
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Four Seasons
What do you love about where you live? Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn. I love the feel of experiencing all four seasons as each of them has a beauty and allure all its own. As I am writing, I find myself in the Northern Hemisphere in summer. Culturally, summer has become a time of vacations and … Continue reading Four Seasons
Helping Me Be the Best Me
Daily writing promptWhat makes a teacher great?View all responses The best teachers I have had listened to me and addressed the needs I had. These teachers helped me discover myself- what excites me, what inspires me, how I learn- and then those teachers set me free to be me. That is an underrated gift teachers … Continue reading Helping Me Be the Best Me
A Good Failure at “Little Things”
I spent the last several days spinning in frustration. After all, I have had a meditation practice for more than 10 years and little things are not supposed to trip me up. Hadn't I arrived at some deeper place? That is what happens when I start to imagine I have arrived and move from a … Continue reading A Good Failure at “Little Things”
Infinitely Precious 