When life serves up a problem, it’s time to use your free resources to help you move to a solution. Here is how I do that. I ask for help. I say, I’m not sure what to do with this problem, but I bet there are a million solutions that I can’t see. Help me see the best one for me.

This sort of affi...

Writing, for me, is a pathway. It helps me access my own inner wisdom when I need some advice. When I ask myself good questions, I get good results. So today I am advocating that we all become better at asking questions.

When you trust yourself, you ask questions that presuppose that you’ll recei...

The best laid plans are just that: plans. They aren’t the way, the path, or even the only route. They are one way you could go to reach a goal.

When I make plans, I like to see them as an example of how things could go, but I allow life to serve me even better routes. Why? Because life has a gran...

When I sit to write these posts, I often have a general idea, but not a lot of specifics as to what I want to say. That’s why writing is such an interesting process. It helps to take your jumble of thoughts and put some organization around them.

In much the same way, I use writing for my own person...

Many of us humans have a tendency to save the best for last or defer pleasure today, so that we can have a happy tomorrow. What if we can have it both ways? What if we can have a happy today and an excellent tomorrow?

We are all so conditioned to believe in trade-offs, that we seem to have lost t...

People who make lists are my kind of people. There is nothing like a list to help me organize my thinking, get stuff out of my head, and bring some order to my life. I previously used a To-Do list every day, where I created a special list of all the things I did not want to do. It was my master, as ...

Do you ever feel overwhelmed by stuff? I do, and it’s time to do something about it. I decided to love all my stuff exactly as it is.

Our stuff is a reflection of who we used to be. As eternal beings who are always changing, we have stuff is stale the moment we trot it home. It’s yesterday’s news, ...

Ample time and energy are spent buying gifts for the holidays. We all do this. We make our lists, we work our lists, and we hope our gift hits the mark.

What if we put equal energy into reflecting on what our gift giving has to say — about us?

The gifts we give hold great potential to reveal our o...

Soul Projects is my blog, where I advocate seeking to add more joy to the life you are already living. It is my love letter to those who, like me, are looking for something more. We call ourselves the spiritually curious because we are not sure where we fit. We no longer ascribe to religions, but we...

Carefully laid plans have a way of tripping us up. That’s because we aren’t the same people when we make the plans, and when we take the action. If I decide today what I will do next Tuesday at 10am, I am using Today Me to make the plans. But often Tomorrow Me has a different idea of what’s the best...

Prior essays have laid the foundation and this essay aims to take us up a notch. To where? To a new understanding of our own power.

To take life to the next level, you need a framework. And the framework you have is your set of beliefs. Think of your beliefs as scaffolding. You can only climb as hi...

If the start of the new year has you feeling down, consider a reverse audit, where you go backwards through the past year and create a log book for each month that captures all your best moments.

To do this, start with a blank piece of paper and create a heading for each month. I use a 2 x 6 grid...