I know I said I was going to fast from online communication, but I've found that in releasing myself from feeling the need to keep up with all my online contacts, I'm freeing up the space for personal reflection that's been missing for a long time ( Read more... )

I've been avoiding silence, avoiding it a lot -- but this morning I finally sat down in the middle of my living room in half-lotus, turned off the music, and dared the silence ( Read more... )

One of my biggest challenges in pursuing my goals is keeping track of the context of all the tasks I set myself. It's so very easy to look at my To-Do List and get bogged down. I see only the checkboxes, not the ultimate impact on my life -- and certainly not stepping stones to the life I'll have when I achieve my larger goals ( Read more... )

After starting out my SparkPeople program with great energy, I've been doing next to nothing for the last month and more: not weighing myself, not tracking my intake, not drinking 8 glasses of water per day, not exercising. That lack of focus and progress was not just in the area of health and fitness, however; I've been experiencing inertia pretty ( Read more... )

While contemplating a couple of projects that are important to me, I suddenly realized that if either of them make it to fruition, they will be presented to the public under names other than the legal name by which I am known in my daily life ( Read more... )

I've lost count of the times over the past few months when I've told someone that it's as if the biggest obstacles to my goals are slick and invisible. It's as if I start out toward what I want, but get turned aside by things I hardly even notice. One day I'm making steady progress -- and the next I'm doing something entirely meaningless, not even ( Read more... )

Making the invisible visible.

queenofhalves asked an excellent question: When was the last time you were happy before you had Lohain in your life?I wrote ( Read more... )

This is very unusual for me: I'm feeling an intense urge to get out for a walk on one of the woodland trails near my home. The weather is pleasantly cool today, which is good ( Read more... )

I haven't been posting about it a lot, but since mid-March I've been using the SparkPeople.com site to help me with weight loss. My progress has been slower than I would have liked, but the community aspect has helped me to persevere through plateaus that would have prompted me to quit in the past ( Read more... )