Your Relationship To The Scarcity Of Time

One of the most compelling aspects of our relationship to time is that time conveys the precious and scarce quality of each individual human life. Ninja Warriors meditated on the poignancy of the human experience of linear time, and they conducted themselves with great honor. Steve Jobs said: “Your time is limited, so don’t waste […]

What Are The Best Ways To Heal And Expand Our Capacities?

What are your role models for capacity? Who taught you how much you can love, how much you can hurt, how much you can heal? What is your capacity for joy? What experiences shaped your beliefs about how much is enough and how much is too much? What is your capacity for forgiveness, for forgetting […]

Where In Your Life Would Adopting Beginner’s Mind Be Most Beneficial For You?

In Zen Buddhism, there is the concept of beginner’s mind. This is a state of openness and receptivity as if one were just beginning – no matter how long you might have actually engaged in a particular activity or faced a specific situation.  There is less analysis and judgment about whether or not something is working. […]

Attention Expands The Goals On Which It Is Focused

An old saying goes: “That which we put our attention on, expands.” When we’ve put our attention on negatives like difficulty, unfairness, obstacles, limitations and reasons why we haven’t been able to do something, we’ve put our attention on matters that do not move us forward. We have then unwittingly formed a goal of not […]

Hope Is A Verb

There is a store near my home that has in its display windows in letters six-feet high: “HOPE IS A VERB.” Those words caused me to look up “hope” as a verb – and it appears to me to be the intersection of expecting, wishing and being optimistic. Clearly, “hope as a verb” implies action. […]

Surrender In Its Most Powerful Form

Surrender of our limitations frequently leads us to expand ourselves as human beings. For example, we can surrender isolation and embrace feelings of compassion . . . or even surrender being average so we can embrace a desire for mastery in a given situation. We can choose to surrender old limiting beliefs and prejudices in […]

“Habitual” Thinking Versus Objective Thinking

Habits are simply patterns of behavior that occur almost without thinking . . . kind of like living on automatic pilot. We conclude this week’s conversation about changing habits with thoughts on habitual thinking – i.e., pre-existing assumptions, perceptions, and attitudes. Can you think of any situation or person where you have had a limiting […]

The Power of Forgetting and Starting Over

This week has been one of our best in Study Hall . . . thanks for attending and sharing. STARTING OVER is definitely a muscle that wants to be strengthened. Fact: the past is over! As Will Rogers famously said, “Today is the first day of the rest of your life.” The advantages of resetting […]