Monthly Archives: June 2012

“I feel like a failure” she said

I had a very interesting conversation this week where the person was convinced that what she was doing wasn’t working.  In her own words, “I feel like a failure.” When I asked her what that meant, being a failure, she said “I don’t know, but I feel like it.” This sparked an interesting dialogue that…

4 reasons for inaction

What we think vs. what we do The desire to do something is strong in all of us.  We have our secret fantasies, daydreams and people we hold up in high regard because what they do in life is something we aspire to do as well.   However, taking those desires and thoughts and implementing them…

How do you pack up your life?

My wife and I just packed up our overseas life after 15 plus years to set out on an adventure/experiment of moving to Laos.  We want to see if we can make a living by teaching yoga and life coaching (me) and have some aspect of interior design (my wife).  Ideally, our long term goal…

What you talk about vs. what you do

What I’d really like to be doing This past week I’ve been visiting my home town in Canada.  It’s a small, quaint, college town right on Lake Ontario and as I’ve been going around, people are quick to chat.  It’s that friendly, Fargo like feel. One of the things I’ve noticed is that people love…

The question of “what would it take?”

The ideas in our head These ideas are the ones that keep coming up but never get acted on.  They are exciting, motivating and get our hearts going, but are quickly quelled out by fear, financial concerns, how you perceive your age, fictional voices of others and ideas of how life should be lived. But…