The V-Word

The important thing is to strive towards a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Years ago when I was a career counselor in Seattle at the phone company I devoted an entire week of a job search workshop to goal setting. It is not a hard skill to master, yet one that is rarely practiced. A study of Harvard...

Explore the relationship foundations for Sacred Sexuality with author/speaker Michael Mirdad. His teachings provide an empowering and insightful keys to connecting with yourself in order to connect deeply with a partner. This engaging conversation will open up new ways of seeing your relationship and deepen your intimate connections.

“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...