There is too much stuff in this house – 16 years of four children, various guests, pets, businesses and endless activity. It just had to go – I needed to truly release SO much of this “stuff” – this was a clearing of Hollywood proportions. The skip was filled to the brim and so we [...]

How many people globally have been majorly freaking out every time they read a headline about the looming global economic crisis? There is so much stress, fear, anger and confusion. Why? What do we think we will lose? If we could list all those things that we think we will lose, I wonder how many [...]

t’s hard to believe that there are only 12 days until it’s Christmas! For me, the middle of December has always been a magical time – everything looks, sounds, smells and feels different. There is this unspoken expectation hanging in the air that magic is about to happen – a creative tension of childlike wonder [...]

t looks Persian perhaps. Faded dark reds, muted blues, patches of yellow trying to break through jaded greens amidst swirls of stories told in symbols of chest combs, mother goddess hands and ram’s horns. This enormous carpet is heavily textured, edged in brocades of old golds, thickly woven around motifs of birds and fetters and [...]

Silent sentinel I stand in a world that holds endless species of light. I am Surya driving through the heavens. You look up and imagine that you see a golden orb. This sun is merely your own reflection. It is your own heart. It is your own light. The light you seek is within you. The light [...]

If I were a fish and swam in a creek would my entire universe look two dimensional? I could swim forward and backwards – one side and then the other. Would I conceive of an UP – beyond the surface of the water? So if I were a fish and I mentioned to the other fish [...]

e can justify every single event in our lives by attributing cause and effect from various stories. No court in the world could pass judgment against the wealth of pain and suffering and perpetuated evil in the stories that human beings write, live and carry around with them as some sort of badge of honor. [...]

Many small companies believe that having a system or a standard is unnecessary. “I’m too small” they’ll say OR “I’ll never recoup my investment”. What is your vision? Why did you open your own business? What’s in it for you? What’s in it for your customers? A standard is your best practice and an integration system for [...]

Your business is a promise you make to your customers and your shareholders. The people, processes and technology in your business interweave to align with the delivery of your products and services and this promise. Peter Drucker said that the purpose of business is to create a customer. For thousands of Training and Personal Development companies, [...]

Winter is in the process of ending and Spring is looming before us. Trees whose leaves went reddish yellowish brownish purple in April and then fell in June will begin to bud and bloom again in September so that by December they will be a brilliant green. When we isolate principles of structure – like we [...]