Imagine a life of ease. Each day pleasantly surrounded by the familiar. No major challenges. Sounds good?We may try to create this life for ourselves by keeping our work, relationships and interests well within our comfort zone.

Life is predictably unpredictable. One minute, all is calm, all is bright. The next, we are gently bumped (or knocked for a loop!) outside our comfort zones. Whether we land shakily on our feet or are sent sprawling . . .

A cluttered work or home environment, filled with stuff we no longer need or use, robs us of vital energy we could be using for creative, full-tilt living. Whether we are aware of it or not, those piles waiting for sorting, recycling, repair . . .

Every once in a while, I awaken from a deep sleep, aware that I have had another ‘teaching dream’— a dream in which I am given clear instructions for living. Recently, on the heels of writing my newsletter about procrastination . . .

Have you ever had the experience of blurting something out which you never meant to say? Something that you never even knew you were thinking? We are like icebergs traveling through life with 10% . . .

Inertia comes from the Latin root ‘iners’ meaning idle, and we often associate it with laziness. But in physics the word loses this negative association. It is alive with possibility. Describing inertia, Sir Isaac Newton says every body . . .