Starting a conversation with a person you don't know can be scary. Yet the few times I have done so, I have had surprising outcomes. I made new friends, found solutions to problems I didn't even plan on solving when i initiated the talk,

Do you complain a lot? Maybe not out loud to others, but to yourself? I realized I complain more than I like. What we think is just a statement, an observation or an explanation, might actually come across to another person as a complaint.

When we spend time with the best, we become our best. They are the people who push us, who give us constructive criticism, and who strive to become better every day. If we want to reach our big, lofty goals, we need those people in our lives.

I am busy. But I am afraid to say so because the somehow the word busy has a bad rep. I look at it a bit closer in this episode and thanks to a recent post by Seth Godin, I have come to terms with busy. It never feels good to the person we are to busy ...

A recent email by meditation guru Light Watkins revealed 4 truths about conflict that I find helpful. Any difficult encounter with a loved one contains these 4 truths and before we jump into judgement, react with strong emotions or make incorrect assum...

I have learned that most conflicts in my life are my responsibility. I can always make a better effort through my responses, my expectations, and my actions. But we have to do the inner work. We have to look for the lesson in each conflict and then ref...

Two recent articles made me reflect on the subjective nature of our experiences. Yet we believe they are the universal wisdom. And the we try to impose our views on others, or fail to listen when they share their experiences that may be different from ...

When you allow your mind to pick the station, it will play whatever it likes. It will take you down memory lanes and before you know it, you're in a bad mood, frustrated, depressed or even angry.  Our mind is powerful because it can determine how we f...

How do we know who to listen to in critical moment - the brain or the heart? Often we dismiss the heart as irrational. But yet, we all at times go by our intuition. Science supports the notion that our heart should be included in our decisions and I sh...

You don't have to start anything. You can wait until the circumstances are perfect, until you feel ready and everything falls into place. Or you can start. Somewhere. Anywhere. With a terrible first effort. But its an effort.