Today I begin a new regular feature on this blog: “Monday Inspiration.” My colleague Jeff Herring, who used to run a regular feature called “Sunday Inspiration,” encouraged me to introduce this feature and to follow his lead. I believe giving lies at the crux of receiving. However, many people get stuck “giving to get.” That’s […]
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During a telephone conversation some years ago, friend of mine asked me, “Are you enjoying your new house?” She knew we had purchased a 25-year-old home in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Northern California and our back yard consisted of a fabulous Redwood grove. The house had a two-story western-facing wall consisting of floor to
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December and January are huge goal-setting months. As the New Year approaches and settles in, like me, you may have created new targets to hit in the next 12 months. You now have a long list (or a short list) of personal and professional goals you’d like to achieve. However, it’s easy to forget an
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New Year’s Eve passed with all the usual pomp and circumstance and took our 2014 achievements and failures along with it. At midnight, a new year began and brought us a clean slate upon which we each can write our goals, plans and dreams for the next 12 months. If you actually wrote down your
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We all have dreams and desires we would like to manifest—new cars, soul mates, fit and trim bodies, perfect health, rewarding jobs, increased wealth, abundant free time to pursue our interests, but we don’t always do what it takes to create these things in our lives. On December 31st or January 1, we may come
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Christmas offers those who celebrate the holiday, as well as those who don’t, an opportunity to take a deeper look at the meaning behind acts of giving and receiving. However, its easy to get caught up in the commercialism of the season and focused either on getting the things you desire or on giving your
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Despite the fact that the observance of Chanukah revolves around the lighting of candles in the menorah, or chanukiah, often Jews find themselves in the dark when it comes to making this holiday meaningful and spiritual. Much like Christmas, Chanukah has become a holiday about consumerism rather than about God, miracles and struggles for religious
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The holiday season can be difficult for many reasons. Maybe you like to give but are experiencing tough economic times. It can feel quite frustrating to be unable to shower those you love with gifts or to offer charitable donations to the groups you care about. Yet, there are ways to give no matter you
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Have you ever wondered why those of us on a spiritual path are told to have a “practice”? Imagine if we all joined a spiritual team and got together every day for practice. What would we do? Would we run prayer sprints? Would we stretch our beliefs? Would we scrimmage different religions? In fact, practice
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I purchased a bumper sticker a few years ago that says, “You don’t have to believe everything you think.” It reminds me not to focus on my negative thoughts, limiting beliefs and old stories about myself. The bumper sticker resides on my desk in a rack that holds folders. It sits to my left along
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Denial—a mental place many of us spend time. Yet, doing so doesn’t serve us. It just perpetuates the story we tell to protect ourselves from the truth. The other day a lady pulled into the parking lot and hit my car. I was sitting in my parked car. She damaged my bumper. She claimed the
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This past weekend I brought out a wedding album. I wanted to show my stepson’s fiance the dress I wore when I got married. What struck me about the photos in the album was how much…or how little…some people had changed over the last 26 years–including me. Outer appearances can be deceiving. We think they
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