While on my walk, I was playing with focus meditation and tuning into how the wind moved the tree branches, how a crow landed on a light post, or how everything unfolded in the present moment. But as I zeroed in on the way the top of a tree swayed in the wind, I completely unfocused on everything else and walked straight into a parked Amazon truck. So, moral of the story, make sure you are not moving. 🤣🤣🤣

Hey Meditation Mates, I was with my 87 year old dad today, and at the end of our visit, his speech slurred. I believe I was present to my dad having a mini stroke. He is fine and I am fine. He lives in an assisted living community, so I called the nurse immediately. All the checks happened, and his speech was normal again. It’s taken me about an hour to come down from the adrenaline and be with what happened. A lot of child-type fear of my dad dying of course, but then I remembered: yes, and what is happening now? Like right now? And I was like phewwww right - all of that happened, and yeah process it, and what’s so is that RIGHT NOW, my dad is here on this earth and we spent the day together in love and joy. So much love, and so much joy. And I even thought - how lucky am I? How lucky am I that I got to experience something so profoundly intimate with someone I love so insatiably? I like to say: it’s not always beautiful, and it’s always perfect. It is beautiful though. Exceptionally beautiful. When the nurse was gone, I was just kinda like, welp, this is something we are up to now. This is it. And it’s perfect. Now i think I’ll go cry and offer myself some of that Loving Kindness. 💜

An email will go out tomorrow creating a game for filling the next two cohorts of this program—and where there is a game, you know there are prizes!!! 🙌🎁💥 Look for that tomorrow. In the meantime, to help you help me, I am going to start posting about this on The Facebook (which is where you came from). Let me know if you are okay with me tagging you in the posts (no more than every other day or so). You can forward it to people, and you can add comments that support whatever I am asserting in the post if it feels true to you. I can certainly tag you at whatever frequency feels right to you (including not at all, obviously), and I will not tag you without express approval here. Here is a sample of the type of thing. Each post will include a meme (duh) and tie it into the work we've been doing. This is tomorrow's post with the meme: In today's hyper-distracting world managing our attention feels like a superpower - sometimes it feels like it would be easier to learn to fly. That's one of the bigger, unsung outcomes of my mindfulness course, How to Live a Grateful Life in a Fcked Up World. Our ability to experience gratitude is directly proportional to our ability to direct our attention where we want it. By default, we are pulled to focus on the problems (of which there are more than a few these days), and besides being exhausting, it takes us out of the opportunity to sit with what's beautiful, what's working, and what we love about our lives. Imagine taking back the reins of your attention so that when you're with your family, you are fully with them. Imagine the increase in performance at your job if you were able to fully be present with what you were doing (and who you were doing it with) when you were doing it. I am offering new cohorts of this free mindfulness training: one for real estate and sales professionals on Tuesdays from 12:00-1:00 starting March 11 and one for Normies (everyone else) on Wednesdays from 6:00-7:00 p.m. starting March 5th.

For more 2 years I have been traveling to Singapore to the same client office. I walk the same path, go to the same coffee place, work long days, eat at the same restaurants…. all because it is my habit and what they do. Yesterday for first time, I interrupted my routine to stop, slow down and open my eyes versus my habitual pattern rushing from one thing to the next… I discovered there was a garden path filled with flowers, which led to new places to eat, new shops to explore —-apparently all I had to do was turn left instead of right!!! Being kind to myself including not judging myself for forgetting to practice last week, lead me to a whole world of beauty just waiting to be discovered 💗❤️🧚‍♂️🦋🐞🌺🌺🌼