questforameaningfullife

When in doubt, simplify. I like to remind myself of this phrase, because it seems so easy to let things just get too complicated. This kind of like sighing in exasperation, “Ah, it’s so complicated. Life is so complicated. There’s just so much going on. I’m overwhelmed.” This feeling of overwhelm. I mean, we’ve all […]

When it comes to my daily routine, often I find the most difficult part for me right now is the evening, going to sleep, shutting everything down in a way that works and it gets me ready for the next day. Because every part of our day except sleeping, it seems like we have some

The bus stop feeling. Just standing there, side of the road, looking to see if that bus is finally going to come. Checking the app, maybe, but it’s not always accurate. It might say five minutes, then five minutes later it says five minutes. Or you’re looking, you see the light: oh, is that a

What would you do if you didn’t care about being a good person? What would you do if you didn’t care about anybody but yourself? Now, this kind of thought, immediately I think of, well, that’s something bad people would do, and that’s psychos that think like that, that are just purely selfish. So I

Being stuck in a rut. Like this metaphor of the rut, like this hole in the road, a warning track, in a muddy road. You’re going down the road in your cart, and the wheel gets stuck in this rut. You can imagine this going down the road of life, and you just feel like

What is the fire of life, this feeling of being alive, this feeling of wonder and amazement, euphoria, ecstasy even, that we exist, and we have a chance to be alive and experience this universe? Imagine actually having this feeling. I’m sure almost all of us, we’ve had this feeling. And some of us know

The idea of changing my life, the idea that my life is not what I want it to be: that is behind why I started this channel, this project, to try to find a way to make my life closer to how I want it to be, how I imagine it to be. And I

You know I’m always looking for these different natural cycles and different kinds of ways of building in nature into our schedule, into the way that we organize time. And I find it always interesting to come up with these new ways to structure time. Just because, as I keep saying, time is clearly the

As we get near the winter solstice here, shortest day of the year, I’m thinking about the daily rhythm of life. It seems like, of all the rhythms of time, this is one that we simply can’t get away from. Of course, there’s the yearly rhythm, which I love to really bring out and feel

The momentum of living life the way we do can be very strong. And of course we can use this to our advantage when we’re building habits. So if you start to do things regularly, after many weeks it can really start to get built in and baked into the way you are, and you