Rather than be obsessed with SEO, trends, and likes, focus on selfless service. — After hearing yesterday’s news about Matthew Perry, I anticipated having to work on the “time-sensitive” story about his cause of death. I looked on the assignment board and was somewhat relieved it had already been taken. After all, the medical examiner doesn’t quite know what exactly led to his death…

Empower yourself to cultivate positivity to change the world. — A woman came up to me yesterday while I was working at my laptop at Starbucks. “Excuse me, is that your white Juke outside?” For a moment, I was startled, thinking she might have hit it. “Yes, it is.” She seemed relieved to have found me. “I drive a white…

Midlife reminds you that maybe you left some dreams behind. — Lately, I’ve been revisiting the work of two people who brought me joy and inspiration in my late 20s and early 30s. I came across my old CD travel case — one I haven’t used in maybe 10 years — and found my Jimmy Buffett CDs and an old compilation…

Find practices to reshape your energy. — According to ancient yogic philosophy, all of nature, including your own mental and physical tendencies, consists of three gunas: tamas, rajas, and sattva. Tamas represents inertia and darkness, rajas represents activity and passion, and sattva represents clarity and lightness. While all three gunas are present in everyone and everything, one…

Every time I hear someone say, "Follow your passion," I'm reminded of Walter Isaacson's keynote speech from my niece's graduation. He said, "No one cares about your silly passion. How does your passion serve others?" We get too caught up in our "me first" culture that we forget to circulate what we receive. In other words, if we're always consuming, someone is lacking.

Like attracts like. — “Men suck.” “Women are crazy.” Do you hear this often in your circles? I remember about 30 years ago, I said, “All men are jerks.” Mind you, I was still in my 20s. My friend, a male, said to me, “Do you know every man in the world to make…

You can play the victim, or you can transform it. — Yoga (and I mean the true meaning of yoga that includes Buddhism) is about liberation. Some yoga traditions believe in reincarnation, so this liberation is about being free from the karma of past lives. So we work through that karma best as possible in this life while trying to avoid…

Sometimes the ego deceives in an attempt to manipulate others. — Joel Osteen even calls bullshit on them. Sure, he might put it more politely while broadcasting to millions of people, but he still questions those who seem to have some red phone that answers calls from God. “[Y]ou’d think God speaks to them more than he spoke to Moses, David…

It’s too easy to blame our bodies for what’s going on in the mind. — One of my favorite classes blended qi gong, kundalini yoga, and shamanism. It was one of the wildest experiences. I’d shake my body while the teacher would whisk feathers or strike a tuning fork near me, and I’d leave each class feeling truly transformed. Then I’d read some old religious…