The Gardener & The Passerby

Know this.

You’re not the only one struggling to find Happiness in your days, and getting mad at yourself because you can’t make it happen. You’re not the only one who wants to get out of your brain every once in a while, who feels trapped in a marathon of though… Read more...

The ‘Free Time’ Freakout

This weird phenomenon happens when I have free time. I freak out.

As a dad-entrepreneur-husband-counselor-activist-writer I’m constantly searching for that elusive free time. I wrote a frickin’ book on making more time in the day (though it was hard to find time to writ… Read more...

What Do You Get For Being Good?

What do you get from being good?

If this were an easy question to answer, I suppose there would be more good in the world.

When you work out, you get muscle.
When you eat, you get energy.
When you do art, you get what you created.

Being good, doesn’t directly correlate with anyt… Read more...

Doing Good In The World

I think we all want to make the world a better place – through our job, through our personal pursuits, but it’s easy to get wrapped up in the responsibilities of day to day living, to get tired, and to be overwhelmed. Where do I start? How can I make a difference?

Well… Read more...

Lucky Fool

To be a fool is a wonderful thing.

It means you’re naive, innocent, and trusting enough to be wooed into something out of the ordinary.

Having oatmeal fall on your head, stepping into a pair of shoes filled with shaving cream, showing up to an important meeting only to find a… Read more...

Bored Like A Rock Star

One of my clients was on tour with a rock band – I’m talking, like, major rock band. She was the assistant band manager, which meant, among her other bazillion duties, she set up all the pre-show and after-show events for screaming hysterical fans.

I had a lot of quest… Read more...

What Comes After A Good Cry

I had just finished crying over the loss of a friend.

It was 6 am and my daughter, the younger one, was up early laying in bed next to my wife, or, should I say, on top of my wife, annoying the heck out of her, trying to get her to let her watch baby videos on her phone. This is t… Read more...

Happiness

Why is HAPPINESS so hard to obtain when it’s the thing we all want in life?

There’s no shortage of it and we have the gift of free will to track it down and put it in our pocket, yet most of us don’t get the experience of emptying it out onto our nightstand at th… Read more...

Stones Become Fishes

I have this cycle I go through whenever I have an appointment with a client.

About an hour ahead of the appointment, I start to get anxious. Well, not exactly anxious. If I am to be honest, I would say it’s more like resentment that I have this appointment at all. It’s… Read more...

Powder Blue

We go through such great lengths to paint the inside of our rooms… It takes all day, we risk destroying furniture and floors. Taping’s a bitch. It gets much worse before it gets better, and it always takes longer than first envisioned.

But it’s worth it, don̵… Read more...