“The hard must become habit. The habit must become easy. The easy must become beautiful.“ -Doug Henning
Early in the quest, the question of habits was explored and discussed. I learned that it takes 21 days to break old habits, longer if they are ingrained in your brain for years. I have been using the wristband methodof paying attention to my words and thoughts since day 8. I have been...
“There’s nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.” -Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Re-entry after days away can be a challenge. Going from single-minded pursuit to the multi-layered reality of a large family has some jarring qualities. Especially if I have been gone for a long time, everyone has saved up their needs for my arrival and it all is overdue. My own exhaustion is accustomed to...
“Love is what makes you smile when you’re tired.”
It’s late and the last day of several where I had to keep stepping up to my dream despite my flagging energy and an encroaching virus that would cripple me with choking fits at a whim. The day you break your booth down is the most challenging of all, because it is at the close of three long days: days that each consumed the energy of three...
“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.” ~Thomas Szasz
Surrounded by businesses large and small on the floor of Expo West today without my companion of anxiety about where I was in comparison, allowed me to observe the natural product world that I have been working in for years. In the past I...
“The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread.” ~Chinese Proverb
Today might be the first time I have ever felt happy and sick at the same time. Usually bodily ailments brings my mood down with it, but instead I feel sad and disappointed that my body can’t come along for the ride. Actually it was probably the intensity of the day and the hundreds of...
“The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.” -John Naisbitt
Something happened today that I have been working towards for some 70 days now. The change took hold in my body and all the words that I have read and studied about positivity from dozens of authors saying the same thing in...
“How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.” ~Victor Hugo
As a purveyor of love products, I have had my fair share of conversations about kissing as the gateway to intimacy. A little kissing know-how...
“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” — Tim Cahill
I don’t know of a sweeter experience than finding yourself at home with friends that you haven’t seen for a time. I love basking in the warmth and welcome that doesn’t need to be said because it is so deeply felt. I also love the freedom to speak your mind without hesitation, knowing that they get you. And the feeling of...
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“The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.”
~Wendell Wilkie
Flying is an act of genius and faith simultaneously. Big planes moving through the sky have been existed for quite some time and huge airports cover vast tracks of land in big...
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. ~Nelson Mandela
The day before I leave home is a challenging day for me. The pull outward has started in my belly and the things that have yet to be taken care of here loom larger than ever. The preparations for the trade show have been going on for weeks, but still, there are...
“Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone…….The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.” -Mohandas Gandhi
I have been spending a lot of time lately trying to get quiet enough to hear my inner voice. Actually it is the only thing that I am really interested in hearing lately. Culturally we are not particularly attuned to listening long enough to...
