Good Clean Reads

On my way home from the adult entertainment trade show, my positivity was not only intact, but improved. I haven’t attended this tradeshow in the last five years, focusing my marketing efforts on educating the natural and medical markets about the importance of healthy and clean intimacy products, as well as clarifying the steps for a healthy libido to thrive.

Five years ago, before all the free...

It is easy to confuse the order of these three life action verbs in our culture that often confuses contentment and stuff. I am in the city of lights for the annual adult entertainment show and I am amazed at the enormity of our human capacity to create and manifest. It is a city decorated with all of the world’s greatest monuments and treasures that drives the message “to have” like none other.

I...

“Don’t let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries. ” ~Astrid Alauda

John Gottman described the experience of total overwhelm as being emotionally flooded. He employed the term in his explanation of what happens to many couples in the heat of an argument. When things get intense and we are overcome by our emotional state we lose our ability to communicate...

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” -Zig Ziglar

I have achieved my goal of the positivity quest, which was to change my mind. It has been a long and well-documented climb of turning my sights and sensitivity towards a positive world view. Yet, here I stand, 365 days later with not only an extraordinary view of my life’s potential...

“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.” -Mary Anne Radmacher

I never had babies that slept. My second child was awake every night for two years. I was so exhausted by the time the third and fourth babies arrived that as...

“In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.”  -Victor Cousins

One of the most important practices that I have established during my year of the positivity quest is my daily meditation when I practice Sankalpa. The practice of Sankalpa, which means intention or resolve, is derived from an esoteric Himalayan yogic science, which was known and practiced 5000 years ago....

“The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree:  the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.”  ~Burton Hillis

I have few if any good childhood memories of Christmas, and although I have dedicated my adulthood to reinventing the holiday over the last thirty years, my earliest memories have retained some kind of hold over my holiday experiences. For years I would overcompensate,...

“There is no sincerer love than the love of food.”  -George Bernard Shaw

I have been making a traditional Slovenian rolled bread called Potica every year on Christmas Eve for almost thirty years. It is a long process of making giant batches of dough that rolls out to the size of the dining room table and turns out baked into 10 loaves. I have been following the same recipe year after year, but...

“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, “I used everything you gave me.”  ~Erma Bombeck

I am tired, but it feels like the good kind of tired from using yourself up for something meaningful and worthwhile. My work at Good Clean Love has never felt so clear or purposeful as it does now since my values have been...