Sitting on a wide beach with the sound of the ocean and a beautiful sunset…not a care in the world and pure relaxation exuded from my body. I thought, “Why can’t life be a vacation?” As I prepared for re-entry into real life from our week away, I kept thinking about this. Is it possible to feel like you [...]

Meditation is often mis-understood as this “out there” thing that only very spiritual oriented people do. Yet, it is becoming more mainstream for a reason. It is useful for everyone — whether you are navigating an important business meeting, having an internal debate about this week’s workout regimen or debating with your three year old [...]

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? — Rumi Is your mirror being polished? Not always a comfortable process and often full of maybe what we need but don’t want. Life is funny like that isn’t it. And, the more we resist getting shined up (I interpret this as [...]

Am I an Endurance Athlete? I work for Endurance Magazine and I am surrounded by an awesome team of people who…yes, I consider Endurance Athletes by the noteworthy definition. They all have different strengths and everyone has some awesome PRs; they train hard and annually have goals for competing in various events that push them [...]

Gaining and keeping perspective on “what is really important in life” is a skill that I am learning needs to continually be cultivated; gaining this perspective on occasion doesn’t ensure it’s permanence. In fact, nothing is permanent. There are so many opportunities for getting micro in our lives – shaving seconds off our time for [...]

I was recently engaged in a conversation with a group of women about our ever growing mentality of “not enough:” …There is not enough time in the day, my house is never clean enough, I don’t dress stylish enough, I can’t seem to get on top of things at work, I don’t give enough individual [...]

I can remember my Mom regularly saying: “Everything always changes” or “Change is a given.” I heard her then and now I understand her. Change is a definite part of life and we have a choice – embrace it or fight it. Thank goodness I had her as a role model for how to embrace [...]

I was recently reading a children’s book a friend loaned to me – The Three Questions by Jon J. Muth to my daughter. It is based on a story by Leo Tolstoy and it explores three interesting questions: When is the best time to do things? Who is the most important one? What is the [...]

Something about the change of pace this summer has brought to mind many questions and thoughts about my relationship with time. There are many different ways to define and quantify time: Hours in a day, minutes in an hour, being on time, passage of time, our life-time, being present in this moment, time left to [...]

I believe we are all part of something “bigger.” Now, I am not sure what that “bigger entity” is at this point and I grapple with this understanding regularly. At some point though, a clear understanding of exactly what this entity isn’t that important – I have grown to accept that I am part of [...]