7 Steps to Finding the Meaning of Life

Posted on July 28, 2009 - Filed Under Living Fully, The Meaning of Life | 56 Comments

The search for the meaning of life is a quest we are all on, whether we know it or not.  You wake up one day, in a sweaty panic, and breathlessly ask yourself, “What is this all for?”  Thank goodness you asked, or else you would find yourself at the end of your life having [...]

Live Like You Were Dying

Posted on July 17, 2009 - Filed Under Living Fully | 1 Comment

It is important to always live like you were dying.  Because you know what?  You are. 
I was looking at photos and reading about Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and JFK Jr. tonight.  Some of the images were just months before their tragic deaths.  It is eery to think when the pictures were taken they had no idea their [...]

Waiting to Start Living

Posted on June 30, 2009 - Filed Under Getting What You Want, Living Fully | 279 Comments

My husband just returned from a trip to Brazil.  He is from Brazil, and this is only his second time home since he was 18 years old.  We have often talked about moving there as soon as possible.  It is beautiful, we like the culture of enjoying life, and he could be near his family.  [...]

Flow

Posted on June 25, 2009 - Filed Under Living Fully | 109 Comments

One of the ways to suck the marrow out of life is to find your flow.  This is the phenomenon when you are so engaged in what you are doing that you lose track of time.  This is the being present in its truest sense. 
People tend to find flow when they are doing something creative.  [...]

Suck the Marrow Out of Life

Posted on May 28, 2009 - Filed Under Living Fully | 118 Comments

“I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, To put to rout all that was not life and not when I had come to die Discover that I had not lived.”  –Thoreau

I find that most people are living in [...]