I recently finished reading a very interesting book called Improv Wisdom: Don’t Prepare, Just Show Up, by Patricia Ryan Madson. This book is an invitation to be natural, spontaneous and experience the gift of every moment. In fact, improvisation is the best strategy to use after finding your purpose in life. Almost all my life…
Last week I asked the Miracle Question from Solution-Focused Therapy. The Miracle Question is simply, “If while you slept a miracle occurred tonight that solved all of your problems, how would you know when you woke up in the morning that a miracle occurred? What would be different?” The first step, of course, is answering…
Are you committed to being rich? I don’t necessarily mean riches as in money, but rich in whatever way is of most value to you. Most of us at least try to strive toward some sort of riches, but what does it take? What does it mean to be your best self, to create and…
Your life is your vehicle. Are you filling her up? If you’ve driven a vehicle of any kind, you know that it’s pretty much useless on an empty tank. I mean, it will still sit there and exist, but that’s not what you have it for. You want it to fulfill it’s purpose—to get you…
Just like Tom Hanks’ character in the new movie, Larry Crowne, thousands of middle-age Americans each year reinvent themselves by going back to college. They do it for multiple reasons: they lost their job, got looked over for a promotion, or just want to start over. But whatever the reason, getting the best possible education…
Life lessons have a way of piling up as the years go by, but I can only imagine what it would be like to know these truths from the very beginning. There is great joy in learning, so I have no regrets about learning these lessons from life the hard way. The end product (a…