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Flow State

Flow State

Flow State

Imagine scaling a 3200 foot rock in the middle of Yosemite National Park…. with no rope! I recently saw climber Alex Honnold do just that in the National Geographic documentary film Free Solo.  The movie documents his journey to scale the El Capitan rock formation with no ropes and no assistance. I was captivated from the start.  It was truly an exhilarating experience. As I watched Alex do the climb, I could palpate his flow state; that feeling you get when you are completely absorbed in what you are doing and time seems to stand still. I was in awe.


Mindfulness Made Simple

Mindfulness Made Simple

Mindfulness 

Our minds are so busy wondering with worry and anxiety about the future or anger and resentment about the past.  In fact, research conducted by Matt Killingsworth in his Track Your Happiness project, (where he’s collected over 650,000 responses from people about how they are feeling, what they were doing and about their mind wandering; using cellphones), showed that our mind wanders about 47% of the time!  His project also showed that when our minds wander, we tend to be less happy and that it was the mind-wandering itself that led to unhappy feelings.  So then, it would make sense that practicing being present and focused on the task at hand would help increase our happiness.  But how do we do that? Enter: Mindfulness.


2019: How to Follow Your Compass

2019: How to Follow Your Compass

Where is Your Compass Pointing?


Have you ever noticed that when you are driving a car, you tend to steer towards what you are focusing on?  Hence, the importance of ‘look at where you want to go.’  Well, this happens in life too.  Most of us tend to look at what we don’t want in life and especially at the beginning of the New Year: