Monthly Archives: February 2011
Natalie’s Question of the Week, 2-28-11
What can you shift in your physical environment that could make your life more effortless?
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Expand – Contract – Expand
This month’s issue of O focuses on both surrounding yourself with things that you love and decluttering. An extended mobility challenge has helped me expand more than I’d like and I’m working on contracting. Sometimes, a great success is followed … Continue reading
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Susan’s Question of the Week 2-26-11
Oscar Wilde said, “You might as well be yourself; everyone else is taken.” Still, most of us have heros and admire those people for specific character traits. Who are your heros? What are the traits you admire? How have you … Continue reading
Weather or Not
As I prep for my journey from Vermont, through Northern NY, to NYC, I’m aware of the varying opinions of weather. As yet another “big one” approaches the northeast, it is the topic of conversation far and wide. This year … Continue reading
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Simple Things
I was having lunch at Mario Batali’s Eataly recently, caught up in my own private world, but ever-so-slightly eavesdropping. The man sitting next to me had a series of conversations with people who seemed to play significant roles in the … Continue reading
Plan B
For those of you who know me, it will not shock you to discover that I never have a back-up plan. I know, I know, I was taught the same thing as you. “You need to have something to fall … Continue reading
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Natalie’s Question of the Week 2/21/11
“There is no more important step you can take than to define your life’s purpose. It develops your sense of belonging to our universe.” – Arnold Patent Does this ring true for you? If so, what step can you take … Continue reading
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Reshaping a So-called Problem
It’s so easy to get caught up in something that’s going on, decide that it’s a problem, and get caught in a negative space. This is an old list of techniques, developed by Alex Osborn as ways of looking at … Continue reading
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What if you didn’t struggle?
If you have to struggle or force something to the point of feeling strained, stop. The most powerful action needs no force.—Martha Beck Are you struggling? Most often, it seems that what we resist persists. Someone posted a wonderful Abraham-Hicks … Continue reading
Burt Bacharach Had It Goin’ On
♬ Accept me for what I am ♬ ♬ Accept me for the things that I do ♬ ♬ Accept for what I am ♬♬♬♬♬ Don’t make me over, indeed. Do you ever find yourself in the position of thinking … Continue reading
