A Meditation on Trust & Surrender
If you’re struggling in the face of challenge, adversity, pain, this meditation is profoundly comforting.
Bringing Mindfulness to the US Military
On Friday, I returned to the US Military. I hadn’t been on a military installation in official capacity in over 13 years. But the world is shifting. A few months ago, I got an email from an Army Lieutenant Colonel. She had just read my popular blog on The Daily Love about how to give
Forget Resolutions. Create a 2014 Life Theme & Be Your Best Self … All Year Long
New Years Resolutions are the product of small thinking. I know you want to live the best version of you in 2014. You want to walk in your truth and express what you came to this planet to express, but living as brilliant you is far beyond simply quitting smoking or calling your mother more …
My Top 10 Blogs of 2013 (the most popular, provocative, healing … or simply fun for me to write)
1. LIFE BEGINS AT F#@K IT (1 + 9 Keys to Awesome Living) 2. Are you done “showering in Denny’s bathroom sink” already? 3. A Happy You is Good For the Planet! 4. Play with those that inspire you 5. Healing sometimes just means learning to live in peace with the pain 6. Stop Trying to Convince Anyone of Anything 7. Yes, The World Actually
8-Step Guide to a Great Hug
A truly great hug is a rich experience that has you pull another human body deliciously tight into yours as a way of saying, “I so deeply value your presence that I’m taking this exact moment to feel you, smell you, breathe with you – essentially stamp your being into my cellular memory so that
Love Will Show The Way
I was recently the Minister at a Gay Wedding Ceremony between two beautiful men in California. Facilitating this public witnessing of Love’s complete lack of prejudice is one of the most deeply satisfying highlights of my already adventurous life. I’m a deeply heterosexual man … and I know this with certainty because I spent a
The One R-rated Key to Living an Authentically Awesome Life … plus 9 more PG-13 Keys.
1) Life Begins at F#@k It! Authenticity and Awesome happen the moment you stop trying to control the world around you … a futile exercise, anyway. So often, we only arrive at this thrilling jumping off point after we’ve exhausted every manipulative strategy imaginable to make the world show up the way we want it
We are truly entering the Golden Age of Authenticity!
Even as a straight man, I literally get ecstatic chills in my body when something majorly public happens that advances the cause for not just legal equality for gay people, but for the simple acknowledgment that … … gay people have every right to live an extraordinary life in their own authentic brilliance with all the
A Happy You is Good For the Planet!
The best gift you can give anyone is your own happiness. Surely by now you’ve discovered how exhausting it can be trying to make someone else happy. The best gift life ever gave me was a girlfriend I really wanted to be with who couldn’t be happy with me no matter what I tried to
You get what you MUST have!
“People get what they MUST have.” Tony Robbins said that on Saturday during one of the most powerful weekends I’ve experienced in years, his Unleash The Power Within seminar. Tony Robbins is the masculine embodiment of grounded human potential both understood and expressed (I’ll explain that another time). This is the point: Want to raise