Six years ago I set a goal to smile at everyone I encountered for 6 months. It was partly a social experiment, and partly an intention to...

Life is not like a sitcom, and yet it's so easy to get sucked into those worlds. The other week I was watching a Halloween episode of...

I remember the first time I was cognizant of the New Year. It was 1989 and my parents let me stay up to watch the ball drop. In my mind,...

Picking out a Christmas tree has been a source of stress in my life. It's silly but true. Every year we get a fresh cut tree, doing our...

I have a friend who’s been dealing with a disagreement with a neighbor. His neighbor sports a bumper sticker encouraging, “In a world...

After listening to a client divulge concerns that he'd been carrying around for a while, I asked. "What if you said that to your boss?"...

As I've reconnected with friends and colleagues lately, we typically take a few minutes to recall the last time we had seen each other....

I was out for a walk with my family last month. We were at the local museum parking lot, which has many interesting treasures to explore....

I recently served on a team tasked with guiding our co-housing community through the process of choosing paint colors for the outside of...

Happy June everyone! In more normal times, June is a great month to revisit our plans. It's the halfway point in the year, so there's an...

As a kid, anytime I sat down to take a test I would freeze up and struggle to recall information that I readily knew just hours before....

Many of my clients only used their journals for taking notes during talks, while reading books, or participating in workshops before we...

Journaling has become increasingly popular in the last 10 years thanks to Ryder Carrol for introducing the world to his techniques, which...

Daylight savings is one of my least favorite times of the year. I find it a hard adjustment to make. It's not just because we lose an...

Prefer to watch a video? Scroll to the bottom! I love getting questions about journaling. And one I've heard in various forms over the...

I was recently having a conversation where the words "I don't know" were uttered with such frequency and ferocity that the person I was...

There's a section of the Poudre River where I frequently walk that freezes in the winter. Looking down on it, one might wonder if the...

There's ample evidence that the anxiety of anticipation is often worse than the event itself. Incessantly playing out our worries in...

To say that 2020 did not go as any of us planned may seem like an understatement. I had some vacations I was very much looking forward to...