Are You “Too Busy”?

  I teach somewhere in the ballpark of 15 classes a week (if I’m helping with class coverage that number is easily closer to 20), in addition to writing and…

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The Most Important Non-Negotiable

  Last week I felt as if I was a walking timebomb. A combination of feeling rundown, exhausted and physically sore left me wondering if I would suddenly collapse teaching…

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Things fall into place when you stop looking

  It’s happened to you. It’s happened to me.   When we stop looking, forcing and worrying, things magically seem to fall into place.   I discovered my calling the…

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Kick Self-Sabotage to the Curb

  The other day I was talking to my dear friend, Kevin Michael about his dreams and aspirations.   “You know,” he said, taking a long, dramatic pause, “this,” and…

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Abandon hope of a better past

  Over the last week in California, something shifted for me. It wasn’t a singular action that spurred this shift in consciousness, nor was it the trip itself. But, removing…

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Read this if you’re struggling

  Someone asked me the other day how long I had been teaching fitness and I told them that I had been doing this as a full-time gig for three-and-a-half…

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Confront Your Duck

    We all complain.   Your puppy pees on the carpet for the umpteenth time. Your favorite series airs its final episode. Your laptop crashes and the repair technician…

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The Hungry Ghost

  This past weekend I was up in Boston helping to facilitate intenSati leadership training. While I’ve helped at previous trainings to various degrees over the last two years, this…

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The Open-Hearted Truth Teller

  “You know what we’re going to put you in?” she said.   My eyes rolled back in my head at the tangible excitement in her voice. I knew that…

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