“Don’t Be a Moron” (#897)

I was having lunch with a friend who’d survived a heart attack a couple of years ago. When I asked him if he had any dietary restrictions, he shared the story of going to his doctor post-coronary with a written list of questions about what he should or shouldn’t eat going forward…

A Fresh Take on Anxiety, Depression, and our Natural Energy (#896)

At one of my talks in South Africa last week (click here to read my ‘contemplative travel blog’ from the trip), I shared a description of depression that had never occurred to me before yet as someone who struggled with it throughout my teenage and at times adult years, had the ring of truth…

The Elusive Obvious (#895)

Many years ago, I was brought in to consult on an advertising campaign designed to increase the use of seat belts in the backseat of cars in the UK…

Servant or Master? (#894)

I was watching a fun “secret agent” TV show this morning called Person of Interest, where a character named “Root” was connected via an earpiece into an electronic supercomputer that monitored and processed the input from every single computer, camera, and online recording device in the world…