well-being

22 Feb

Posted at 17:50h in change-agent, systems wellbeing, well-being by

Well, those creepy crawler invader germs found a way to get me. After eight air flights for business travel in nine days, I suppose it was bound to happen. I started feeling fluish two Thursdays ago as I was plerking (playing and working) in Raleigh, North Carolina. By Friday morning, my fever was present and my body was achy. So, my frolleague (friend and colleague) Sandy took me to the local urgent care, where the sign on the door read “Out of rapid flu test kits.” Great! As I got back to see the doctor, though, there had just been a...

14 Jan

Posted at 19:48h in Place, positive place, Social-Emotional Leadership, SOMO Leadership, well-being by

I am home today after three weeks away. I have mixed emotions. Exactly 21 days ago I left for New York/New Jersey on a road trip with my friend Craig. We had fun along route 80 and that fun parlayed into a fun Christmas with my family. It was a good time seeing everyone, staying at my childhood home, and eating lots of delicious Italian food. [caption id="attachment_978" align="alignleft" width="300"] Iceland, January 2013[/caption] Then, I spent a week in Iceland. What a beautiful place. “Thin,” as Rev. Tracey Lind recently described to me, meaning, it’s filled with spiritual energy – close to the...

26 Jul

Posted at 12:17h in Glimpse into Me, Mindfulness, Moments that matter, Relationships, well-being by

[caption id="attachment_888" align="alignright" width="300"] My family - Mom and Dad look too young to be married for 50 years, right?[/caption] Here I go -- off an a two-week Italian adventure with my family to celebrate mom and dad's 50th wedding anniversary.  I am so grateful to my parents for this trip (it was a good year for basement waterproofing,  my parents' business for  30 years) -- and with all of us, no less. Twin sis Chris and her new fiancé and older sis Lisa, her husband and their three kids (20, 17, 15). Two weeks may be an awful long time to spend...

06 Nov

Posted at 22:40h in Glimpse into Me, well-being by

[caption id="attachment_645" align="alignleft" width="224" caption="My suitcase often looks like this."][/caption] Coming off a real grounding weekend, spending it in the one place where I have a dresser of things alongside my suitcase. Essentially, I’ve been living out of my suitcase sine June of this year as I decided to sublet in New York and head west to the plum city, Cleveland Ohio. However, what I didn’t really consider when I jumped into Cleveland headfirst was (a) I still had things going in New York that would need some attention through the end of the year and (b) Living in both...

01 Nov

Posted at 11:47h in Action Research, Cognitive-behavioral, Glimpse into Me, Mindfulness, neuroscience, well-being by

[caption id="attachment_629" align="alignleft" width="276" caption="Who the hell knows?"][/caption] The story of my life. Yours too, I may presume. But not. So step off. It’s mine. Kidding. Step on. We're all fuck ups. Really, I believe this. Cause what happened to our childhood innocence and love – for ourselves, for others? Yes, I’m a fuck-up. And I’m pretty straight, sort of speak. What I mean is, I’m becoming more and more aware of my own insanity and what I’m realizing is that boy, I’ve been conditioned in a funny way. Wow. And I can’t judge it. I can’t hate it. Cause when I do,...

13 Jul

Posted at 20:31h in Positive Intervention, Positive Psychology, Social-Emotional Leadership, SOMO Leadership, Uncategorized, well-being by

I drove 400 miles to Cleveland, Ohio yesterday to continue a newer chapter of my life called "My Dreams are Coming True." I swear, people--this stuff works! It's happening in my life and it's because I'm learning to think differently. Trust me, please. I'm not just talkin' smack. But let me tell you, the past few weeks have been filled with mixed emotions. Lots of anxiety was coming up for me in New York. (I'm learning too that my fear shows up in strange, strange ways . . . almost hard to notice in real time, which is why hindsight is a beautiful thing.)...

04 May

Posted at 20:24h in Flourishing, Positive Psychology, well-being by

From Marty Seligman's new book Flourish. Marty is my mentor from the University of Pennsylvania, where I completed my graduate work in 2008. He is known as the father of positive psychology and is really an incredible visionary. "Happiness Is Not Enough When I started my work in Positive Psychology, my original view was closest to Aristotle’s—that everything we do is done in order to make us happy—but I actually detest the word happiness, which is so overused that it has become almost meaningless. It is an unworkable term for science, or for any practical goal such as education, therapy, public policy,...

27 Apr

Posted at 17:02h in Flourishing, Love, Mindfulness, self regulation, well-being by

[caption id="attachment_474" align="alignright" width="384" caption="Not expecting a miracle from beyond me - but creating one within me."][/caption] I turn 33 on May 21, 2011. My intention is to feel the strongest & healthiest I have ever felt in my life on May 21, 2011. To do this, I will: Meditate regularly. Exercise daily: lifting, inten sati, yoga. Train for the Cleveland Half Marathon, which I'll run on May 15. Choose healthy food options (What's been 'kissed by the sun'?). Eliminate toxins (no drinking or inhaling anything other than fresh, clean air). Love myself fully, exactly as I am. I will know I'm successful when I feel it. I set and spoke...

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