A good friend of mine was telling me a story they heard from an OkCupid date. The story was about the girl’s father. This man was taking early retirement. He had dreamed of retiring for a while now and he was finally getting close to that magic number of 55 years of age. He counted down the weeks: 20 weeks …
I had just come back from Thailand – it had been a dream trip. My ideal life seemed to be at hand. The trip had been absolutely epic. I had spent 3 weeks sitting by the ocean, under the sun, or the stars, contemplating the surf. No thoughts ran through my mind. I was calm, relaxed, and happy. I hadn’t …
Are you playing small? Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection. – Amit Ray
When I first went down this path of putting myself online and giving people advice, I did it, because I was called to do so. I had no idea where it would go. But I was happy to keep on taking a step at a time and see where the trail would end.
There are many ways to live a life. There are many ways to not live a life as well. For the longest time, I felt like I was doing the latter (without any time freedom at all).
I was speaking to a friend of mine recently and she asked me a question that acted as a sort of eureka moment for me. She asked me how much longer I was going to keep thinking that I had some kind of time debt to pay off. And how much longer would it take for me to pay off …
You are not good enough, comparison says to me every day. I look at social media posts, and comparison tells me, I will never be good enough. I was never good enough to start, and I am going to end up being not good enough, even more. Comparison tells me that I am ugly, fat, and stupid. It tells me …
I have a lot of doubt in me, and that’s normal. That’s what I have realized after speaking to dozens of creative people. Everyone has doubts – that’s why you need to hold your heart. If you are human and have a heart, you are going to have an abundance of doubt sitting around either buried deep in your closet …
Bob Marley said those wise words – “the day you stop racing is the day you win the race.” I am not as wise as him, but the words he said make so much sense to me. Everything comes to us at exactly the right time. These words came to me in a moment where I was racing so hard …