#415 – How could you let this happen?You put all the guardrails in place and yet, the worst-case scenario comes to pass. You ruminate, where did I go wrong?Since my son got arrested, every time I saw a pregnant woman radiant with ecstatic expectation...
#414 – How can you be present when fear and pain sicken you?When fear and pain are so heavy that you can hardly breathe, it's easy to do one of two things:go full-throttle into fixing modego somewhere else (via Netflix, social media, food...)Ple...
#413 – How far will you go when you follow what's most alive in you?The best-laid plan in the world won't get you anywhere if it leaves you "meh!"Yesterday, I noticed how animated I was while telling someone about my AI job. Even though it was a...
#412 – What if the obstacles are the point?Running in the Miami summer in the afternoon sounds like buying a lottery ticket for a heart attack or a heat stroke. I always dismissed it as a crazy practice, and rolled my eyes at people doing it, th...
#411 – What is your Ego looking for in certainty?If only you knew what was going to happen, you'd get a chance to prepare, your Ego tells you. You could then overcome any hurdle and you’d be fine.Your Ego believes that certainty is where safety is. W...
#410 – How do you keep your peace when the future looks bleak?The thing you wanted is finally here and you get to see the bleakness of what's ahead of you. Now what?My son came home yesterday and we all faced the very hard and winding path ahead of u...
#409 – How gratitude kept my Ego and the Ghosts quietDo I need to prove I didn't lie?Yesterday, I sat in a courtroom for the last time in my son's case. He was changing his plea to "guilty," as the final, necessary step to be released from his 309-da...
#408 — How does gratitude keep you in the present?When there’s nothing to hope, staying grateful is the only option.Last night, even though I’d been working all day on staying hope-free and avoiding “futurization,” worst-case scenarios came to me.I k...
#407 – What will you do when you stop hoping?A better question might be, "how will you handle not hoping?"When you hope, you're rejecting your present reality, wishing that it'll change in the future. "I hope my son will be released from jail tomorro...
#406 – How is "hope in the future" keeping you trapped?I can hope that what I want will materialize. Or I can relax in the moment-by-moment unfolding of life.Hope gives me a momentary rush of happiness. But the loftier the hope, the harder I fal...