April 13, 2022

Ideas and tips for tuning into Nature’s cycles to help us re-create the depth of meaning and connection that has been all but lost as the “consumer religion” has swept around the globe.

Reclaiming Meaning for Our Holy Days
August 7, 2022

Spring​ is the time to look at the “seeds” or intentions we’ve been gestating over winter, to choose those with the best chances of surviving and thriving, and to let go of the rest of them. As in the garden, so in our inner lives. ​Otherwise, ​your coming “growing season” ​may be filled with too ​much stuff, or with stuff that isn’t serving you. And if it isn’t serving you then it also won’t be serving your world, which is an extension of you.

First Day of Spring (Southern Hemisphere)
December 6, 2017

You don’t have to live a life and think thoughts that are just handed to you. You can continue growing indefinitely, crafting your own worldview and life-experiences, in an ongoing process of consciously “parenting yourself.”

Growing Up – For Adults
September 21, 2019

Having monetized everything else, in order to keep growing the consumer economy now needs to monetize the space inside your head.

Out-Growing Consumerism 1: What Should Never Have Been For Sale
September 27, 2019

Better questions lead to more informed choices, enabling you to live a life designed by you rather than one that’s handed to you as a member of the consumer culture.

Out-Growing Consumerism 2: An Act of Subversion
October 4, 2019

If you choose to keep growing as an adult, you’ll become increasingly self-actualized and self-reliant, and less dependent on corporate providers. This is very BAD NEWS for the growth economy, which is why no profit-focused corporation will ever fund government policies to encourage the public to behave like this.

Out-Growing Consumerism 3: A Self-determined Life
October 12, 2019

What too many ​children learn at school is not to take risks and not trust ​their own thinking. When digital data-harvesting ​enters the mix, ​it becomes the perfect recipe for producing compliant consumers.

Out-Growing Consumerism 4: School, Screens, and Our Kids
October 13, 2019

Self-determination is the ability to re-parent ourselves: to learn new ways of being that make it easier for us to out-grow consumerism and all the forms of separation and alienation from each other and from nature that have befallen us.

Out-Growing Consumerism 5: What We Must Do
February 1, 2020

(2nd in a Series) Here is a way of looking at even the really big challenges that breaks them down to a manageable size.

One Moment at a Time
February 8, 2020

(3rd in a Series) How to focus your energy where you can be most effective, rather than wasting it on things that you cannot make any difference to.

Are You Acting on Life or Is Life Acting on You?
February 14, 2020

(4th in a Series) How your taking care of your “response-ability”—your ability to choose your own responses—increases your personal power and expands your influence.

The Power to Make a Difference
February 21, 2020

(5th in a Series) By prioritizing what is important over what is urgent, you can live a more spacious, meaningful, satisfying life.

Is it Important, or Merely Urgent?
February 28, 2020

(6th in a Series) The idea that you need motivation and will power to reach your goals is part of a story that says if we use enough of the right kind of force, we’ll get to the goal. There is an easier way.

Are You Going After Your Goals the Hard Way or the Easy Way?
March 6, 2020

(7th in a Series) There are ways to set up your distractions on purpose so that they still lead you in the right direction.

How to Go From “Distracted” to “On Track” with these 2 Simple Strategies
March 9, 2020

(8th in a Series) In our make-it-happen culture, making a difference to anything means grunting and sweating, burning the candle at both ends, making herculean efforts. It’s an that approach keeps us in battle mode and sustains drama and conflict.

On Making the Least Change for the Greatest Effect
March 20, 2020

(9th in a Series) As within, so without. How we care for our innermost selves, each other, and our planet, are all linked. As urgent as it may seem to address those issues “out there,” it’s essential to begin “in here.”

Why Your Most Important Responsibility is Taking Care of You
December 28, 2021

Examine and learn from the year gone by, to make your New Year resolutions far more effective. Or use this process during any kind of ending and new beginning.

5 Questions to Help You Learn From Last Year and Make the Most of This Year
August 29, 2022

How often do you say, “I don’t have time”? What if there were ways you could take ownership of how you experience time in your life?

The Lies That Keep You Trapped in “Not Enough Time”
December 2, 2022

As you learn to inhabit your core Self more easily, and from there to bring your internal world into emotional regulation, you’re also developing the capacities that our wider world is asking of us.

How Tending Your Inner Parts, Besides Making You Feel Better, Helps Mend the World
April 2, 2023

A short post on how we use our time and those uncomfortable feelings of “not enough time,” and “not good enough.” Turns out, they might all be connected.

On “Not Enough Time,” and “Not Good Enough”