EP4: Want to Break a Habit? Watch a Kid.

What can a child show you about living freely, without habits, anxiety, and other issues?Everything.Children show us how we come “out of the box”, before our mind creates thought and then forgets it was the creator. This episode will remind you what your out-of-the-box settings really are, and how easy it is to be back

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EP2: Your Mind Fixes Itself

When we take action to try to change our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, we’re interfering where we don’t need to. We’re interfering with a system that clears and corrects and changes perfectly—on its own. Discover in this episode how your mind clears itself, and that there is actually nothing to fix.

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EP1: The Ironic Way Change Really Works

What if most of what we’ve been told about how change works is wrong? What if we have it backwards, and the things we’ve been told lead to deep and lasting change don’t, really? What if that’s why change seems so difficult and short-term? Change is ironic. In many ways, the less we do, the more we change. Listen in as I discuss the ironic way change really works.

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Home Base. It’s Not What You Think.

In The Little Book of Big Change I refer to home base as that innate, default home within us. It’s our natural set point. The home to which the momentum of life naturally bounces us back.More than “within us”, home base is us.So it goes something like this. We feel stuff—thoughts, feelings, and all sorts

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There is No ‘About’

I’m a little obsessed with something this week.(Just ask the students in The Little School of Big Change. They get an earful about my fixation du jour).It’s this: There is no about or of when it comes to our psychological experience.In other words, you aren’t angry about the government, what you ate yesterday, or what

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There’s Nothing to Wait For

There’s a nice woman who is rapidly waking up to the fact that she’s not responsible for every good and productive thing that happens in her life.Even when she doesn’t focus, concentrate, set an intention, or deliberately set a goal, things still happen.Her kids still eat breakfast. She manages to get her car in for

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If it’s Taking Too Long to Change, This Might be Why (Part 2)

In Part 1 of this exploration on why you might not be experiencing as much change as you’d like, I suggested you take a look at where you’re planting you in the equation.(You can read Part 1 here if you missed it).Where you might be taking the simple description of how life works that I

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If it’s Taking Too Long to Change, This Might be Why (Part 1)

If you’ve been looking toward the understanding I share for a while and you’re feeling the same as (or even worse than) usual…If who-you-really-are and your “issues” in life look as real and fixed in place as they always have…There are two questions I hope you’ll consider.The first is this: How much am I putting

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