Choosing Happiness I’m inundated with emails every day.  Are you?  It seems most of us are.  It can be frustrating because honestly, there’s often a bunch of inane time-wasting crap mixed in with some really urgent, important, potentially life-changing stuff.  I was reminded of this fact yesterday when I finally watched a 12-minute video after 3 very well respected colleagues insisted I must watch it (the first was months ago).  I went into viewing it with a negative attitude, feeling ...Read More

The Making of the Is This All There Is? Promo Video When MTV was new, I watched it for hours on end.  Back in the day, a couple of my favorites were “Mickey” and “Thriller.”  Bring back memories for anyone out there?  At some point, MTV started showing “The Making of” stories, where you got a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the videos.  I went crazy for them and would stay glued to my spot when Martha Quinn teased that one was coming up.  I always dreamed I would be...Read More

“All you need is love.”  ~The Beatles, 1967 Happy Valentine’s Day, I guess.  To be honest, I'm ambivalent about this holiday.  Yeah, it’s great to take the time express our love to one another, but shouldn’t we do that every day?  And why is so much of the focus on romantic love, which is, in many ways, the most fleeting?  Why isn’t there more emphasis on how much we love our children or parents or siblings?  What about close friends and our unconditionally adoring four-legg...Read More

  Greener Grass “The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”  - Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose I’ve read everything I can get my hands on by Eckhart Tolle.  Yet his lesson is one I struggle to live by.  How many times a day do you think about how life would be better if things were different in some way? We all do it.  Let’s come clean.  We do it to ourselves and it’s killing us.  Maybe it...Read More