by David | Jul 22, 2019 | blog
“It takes courage to say yes to rest and play in a culture where exhaustion is seen as a status symbol.” — Brené Brown I’ve found myself stuck in western culture’s mindset of “Go! Go! Go!” I feel guilty if I’m not...
by David | Jul 21, 2019 | blog
“Make haste slowly,” says the Alchemist or festina lente in Latin. How much of the time do we spend trying to finish or get to the end faster, whether it’s a project, a race like a marathon or the next stage of our personal growth? There’s...
by David | Jul 20, 2019 | blog
In her book, In When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times, Pema Chödrön writes: This very moment is the perfect teacher, and it’s always with us… Awakeness is found in our pleasure and our pain, our confusion and our wisdom, available in each...
by David | Apr 1, 2019 | blog, books
“Love of your work, willingness to stay with it even in the absence of extrinsic reward, is good food and drink.” – George Leonard The Path of Mastery In his book Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-term Fulfillment, George Leonard describes the...
by David | Jun 21, 2018 | blog
One late night about 25 years ago, I was driving by myself on I-15 from Salt Lake City back to Idaho Falls, Idaho, when I fell asleep at the wheel. I woke up to the left side of my car sliding along a guardrail. When I later returned to the scene a few days later with...
by David | Jun 12, 2018 | blog
I want to come clean on my 30+ year chemical addiction. Although the chemicals feel really good, they have a downside. I recognize now that I do have a serious problem and it’s taken me many years to understand what I was doing to myself and why. My hope is that...