Although I personally celebrate Christmas, I honor all the holidays this winter, and wish you peace, joy and abundance.  In honor of my tradition of gift-giving for Christmas, I am sending you a recording of my favorite holiday book, by Berkeley Breathed.  I read it each Christmas and have personally bought about 3 dozen copies […]

‘What don’t you want?,’ he asked me. It didn’t take me long to find the answer: I don’t want to do just anything in order to make a ‘niche’ for myself. I didn’t want to confine myself to one thing that felt ‘too small’ or wouldn’t capture my full attention. Which led me to the “Aha! moment”: I didn’t want to do anything that my whole heart wasn’t in. So I thanked Gene Monterastelli, and then started writing this post to you all. And now I ask you: Do you ever find yourself doing things because …you think you should…or someone told you it was smart business..or you just feel it’s a good marketing move?

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about researcher and author Brene Brown’s concept of ‘wholeheartedness’, and what that means to me. I’m beginning to think it’s about being fully human.