You Can Get Focused (Hint: Put Down That Phone) The average person’s mind wanders 47 percent of the time, according to a 2010 Harvard study, so nearly half the time you’re doing one thing, you’re thinking about something else. Add the 24-hour news cycle, the barrage...
My Week of ‘Noble Silence’ Holding a transparent plastic pouch, my cellphone zipped inside with a white label displaying my name in bold letters, I followed the line as it snaked toward the front of the meditation hall. With a small knot in my belly, I...
To Bring 5% More Happiness to My Life, I… If you could bring 5% more happiness to your life, how would you do it? This was the question posed—at my request—to the subscribers of Daily Haloha, a new app co-founded by entrepreneur Amy Giddon. Daily Haloha...
How Do You Nurture Yourself Once the Kids Have Gone? In a previous post, “Can the Nest Be Empty if We’re Still in It?”, I described my theory on the so-called ‘empty nest.’ That is, that I don’t believe the nest is actually empty when our only or youngest child leaves...
Can the Nest Be Empty if We’re Still in It? Like thousands of parents across the country, I recently dropped my youngest child at college. On one hand, I was dreading the day—the end of a nearly 25-year phase of raising children under our roof. On the other, I...
