Practice makes comfort. Expand your experiences regularlyso every stretch won’t feel like your first.

What do you resist examining up close?How can you ground yourself so you feel safe enough to try?

Few experiences are more satisfying than becoming someone we always imagined we could be.

Endings are the embryos of new beginnings.

If we never challenge our shortcomings, we ensure that they remain our Achilles’ heel.

The study book for life’s tests is the whole of our experience. Though we mayfeel unprepared, tests appear only when we are truly ready to ace them.

The answer is neither job, nor paycheck; it is authentic, holistic work born from states of awareness and being. Through the coalescence of joy, wonder, enthusiasm, appreciation, experimentation, perpetual curiosity, exploring new avenues, welcoming surprise...

If you want it badly enough, it’s yours.

Keep moving. Your next big thing may be just around the corner.

Do your fears warn of external dangers? Or, are they the kind that keep you from becoming more of your true self?

How does one travel around the world? How does one step out of a well-established life to follow the dream?” I’ve answered those questions. But now new ones emerge.

Those who walk the talk get the work.

The treasured vistas of our solo journeys are not always about the landscape.

The next time someone tries to make you feel bad about feeling good,respond by continuing to live well.

Risk: no full life occurs without it.

What we seek when we wander usually leads us back home.

people actually grow up in New York.

Much of what we acquire in life isn’t worth dragging to the next leg of ourjourney. Travel light. You will be better equipped to travel far.

Until that rainy Sunday at the movies 31 years ago, for me, companionship had been a mandate for life’s good times. After Orca, it became a choice. My trip to the theater helped me to...

As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to reconnect with a long-held love.

No map? No problem. Let commitment and determination lead the way.

Life lessons are not journeys traveled in straight lines but are crossroadsformed years and miles apart.

No matter. I was single, no children, a handful of plants and at 39, young enough to regroup. If I hit ground before I finished building my wings, I would not take anyone with me.

bucket list.

What do you believe about who you are? About your capabilities? When was the last time you trusted yourself enough to test them?

One of the best kinds of thrill is defining, honoring, and achieving our goals.

Mistakes help to sharpen your next steps. They don’t prove that you shouldn’t try again.

Distinguish between getting lost and losing your way. The first is a shift in direction. The second is the absence of perspective. Cultivate perspective and you will be able to steer home.

For all the energy directed toward the stratagem of big city living, New Yorkers are never too distracted to respond to, and more often, proactively assist visitors. Tourists tracing the routes of subway maps with...

Stand up for yourself by not standing yourself up.

My post-cruise sabbatical would spark the idea for my first book, Cheaper Than Therapy: How to Keep Life’s Small Problems from Becoming Big Ones – The Lesson of the Paper Clips. How? In my data...

If you’ve broken any promises you’ve made to yourself, now is the time to make up for it.

If it’s true we only live once, then raise your red velvet curtain every chance you get.

No moment is too small to claim. Strung together, moments fashion a life.

Forgive someone today. Especially if that someone is you.

No matter how many strikes are hurled at you, only you decide when you’re out.

Large bodies of goal achievement research encourage written goals for good reason. When we write down our goals, we transform what we imagine into reality.

The best way to teach is how you live your life.

If companionship is a mandate for all of our experiences, then we will miss out on many of life’s blessings.

Cultivate the art of maximizing serendipitous opportunities.

By necessity, we are direct and swift in speech and movement. This is the true dynamic that underlies our apocryphal rudeness. Also true: we do not make eye contact. Neither do we encourage it. Consider...

It is not so much the grand dramas of our lives that transform us as it isthe tiny one-acts we produce in between.

The gift of solo moments is that they are wholly ours. On or off the road, solo moments connect us inward to ourselves with heightened clarity and insight. They also direct our energies out into...

Be courageous: be still.

When life hands you lemons, why stop at lemonade? Create an entire product line.

Develop the habit of initiating change. You’ll be better prepared for whatever comes your way.

At times, productivity means doing nothing at all.

Stay open. You may find your tribe where you least expect it.

We often mistake letting go for giving up. Knowing the difference betweenthe two can make all the difference in the end.

Take time for yourself. If you feel guilty eating lunch away from yourdesk or lingering in a bath, let the deprogramming begin.