June 2020

So today is midsummer day here in the north, the longest day of the year, the shortest night. The sun is the farthest north that it ever goes. And I really like to acknowledge and celebrate these basic movements of the sun and the seasons, because somehow it connects us to the natural world. To […]

When it comes to ways that we have our success measured, there’s the obvious one of money, you know, how much wealth do you have, which you can share with all your wonderful fancy possessions, or how much fame you have, critical, popular acclaim, you can show how well adored you are. And you know,

So to make it a trilogy about this topic of frame and getting people’s approval: in the first video, I talked about the idea of frame. Are you in your own story, or are you living as somebody else’s story, living as a piece of somebody else’s story? Or are you setting your own story?

Seems like a big part of this issue with frame and having our own frame or living in somebody else’s frame is really about the idea of approval, being approved. We all like to have this feeling that, you know, we are OK, we are good, we are great. And it feels good to be

A concept that I’ve found helpful is the idea of frame, the idea of how we frame ourselves and what’s going on in our lives. And I’ve talked about a related idea with the idea of are you in your story or are you in somebody else’s story? And it’s kind of like that. It’s

So much of our lives is spent doing boring things, mundane activities, and it seems like it’s very hard to get away from that. I mean, we all try to have more fun, and it’s almost like sometimes this kind of entertainment that we seek, we’re trying to compensate for the boredom and the dullness

It’s a bit of an abstract idea, but something I’m enjoying thinking about is taking concepts of system theory and ecology and kind of applying them to personal life. So you can imagine yourself as a system, and there’s energy coming in, energy going out, energy moving around within the system, and you can sort

Planning seems like an activity that provides us with an endless source of humility. Because no matter what we plan, how perfectly we design our future, there’s always going to be surprises that throw things in often completely new directions, leaving all the work that we did in planning and preparing for our imagined future,

I’ve been thinking about what makes a good disposition to face the world with, to face the outside world, to face everybody else, the mix of all the people doing their own things. Some people want to mess with you and other people under your protection, other people have more positive intentions, and we’re dealing

As I’ve talked about before, and certainly will again, I love this idea of waking up and asking “How can I make things better?” and having this as a simple guiding question that can guide what I do each day with my available time. And it seems like if I simply ask myself this every