These ‘’Com­mand­ments’’ are actu­ally just life  lessons. They are reminders to myself about my favorite insights into how to keep myself happy and mov­ing for­ward. 1) A clear tar­get I’ve found it’s not enough to try hard, if you’re not work­ing toward a clear out­come. Every­one says this, but I like it because, if I’ve […]

Find­ing a way to be artis­tic can add tremen­dously to your qual­ity of life. For most of us, much of our active time every day is dom­i­nated by task-completion-activities, things that aren’t par­tic­u­larly mean­ing­ful or impor­tant to us, but just have to get done. Cre­ative prac­tice is about mak­ing a time for mean­ing. Here are some ben­e­fits of a cre­ative practice:

Sixty years in the mak­ing a study of 268 Har­vard grad­u­ates has iden­ti­fied seven pri­mary fac­tors that pre­dict healthy phys­i­cal and psy­cho­log­i­cal living.

I love talk­ing to peo­ple about their aspi­ra­tions. I really do. But there is a dark side to goals and what we often think of as “moti­va­tion.” I have a lot of goals. Last week I con­fessed that I wanted to be a doc­tor, a pilot, a CEO, and a Sen­a­tor before I die. I admit […]

We don’t talk about this very much, but money is an emo­tional sub­ject. It’s hard to be cooly log­i­cal about some­thing so impor­tant. We want enough money, but we don’t have enough until we feel we have enough. And for some very well-off peo­ple I’m sure that moment sim­ply never comes. Alter­na­tively, I’ve met my […]