What might it feel like to always be working and playing in all endeavors? Can you even imagine such a thing? If you’re having difficulty melding the two concepts into one way of being, I suggest watching toddlers for awhile. Their work IS their play and their play IS there work.
Author: capriole coach
Work / Life balance ISN’T a thing!
What if our anxiety, depression, obesity and other ailments are the result of this focus on hours spent and what constitutes our value in society?
1 year (365 days) of daily meditation
BOOM! Where did that other Jeep come from? I was doing a U-turn and I’m certain it wasn’t there a second ago. Ah my horse is about to run out of the open gate! Oh crap, I don’t have time to close it fully. Abort! Abort! Too late, my wrist is now throbbing with pain…
Why thinking positive can make things worse
That’s right, I said that positive thinking can, and often does, make things worse. Why? Because when you “try” to think positively it doesn’t work. As Master Yoda said, “Do or do not. There is no try” When your attempt doesn’t work you will feel ashamed and insecure about the fact that you are doing…
Balance – deep diving
It isn’t balance that’s static, but rather the mind that perceives it. WARNING: This will be technical! Imagine if you will a person standing in line at the store. They are balanced, seemingly static and unmoving. Compare that to the balance of a parkour athlete who has just completed a jump of 8ft, to a…
Two Sisters
I watch these two women best friends all their lives always there for one another both happy and bright Their children more like siblings than anything else their energy tied together so well, these women of Celts their friendship so full they need not even speak the bond is abundant, special and quite unique Both…
Magnificence and Grace
leaving routine and wandering in the leprechaun’s land . a poem
PLAY Mindset™
You can check out the Survival cycle and Fulfillment cycles here. Now onward and upward! The practice that turns a Survival cycle into a Fulfillment cycle is what I call the PLAY Mindset™. As stated in the last post on the Fulfillment cycle, the mindset isn’t about leisure or recreation. It’s a set of skills…
Fulfillment Cycle
Yesterday I wrote about the Survival Cycle, and if you’re human, you’ve been in this cycle. It’s a part of having a mind and living this life. Everyone steps into the Survival Cycle in some aspect of his or her life every now and again. The problems with the Survival Cycle happen when it’s the…
Survival Cycle
Do you ever feel like you are in this cycle? Auto-pilot -> having the same thoughts, feelings and actions that have really become habitual. Some patterns you chose others are unconscious. Fear -> a feeling that something is off and it’s unknown so you can’t do anything about it and no one else seems to…
Horses, Movement & Life 