Have trouble getting started this week? Here's a couple of tricks that might help. The first is a simple solution that I didn’t discover until I was recovering from carotid artery surgery. I found it, of all places, in an old Harvard Business Review . “Get on a regular sleep schedule.” What a crazy idea. As far as I was concerned, staying up late and sleeping late was what made weekends special.   I paid the piper on Mondays. For years, I fought my way through it until I lear

I’ve been noticing that I’ve gotten stingy in a way I hadn’t been in a while. I noticed it first when a college classmate called a couple of years ago. “Could I give to the annual fund drive?” I began to explain my hesitancy: the fixed income. He interrupted. “Lots of us are in that boat.” Of course, we are. We graduated sixty years ago. “Even a small amount would be wonderful.” They were more interested in the percentage of class still giving than the amount raised. Our clas

In our practice, we discover things for ourselves. That was the way that the Buddha wanted us to go at it. “Don’t take my word for it. Check it out. Test it in your life.” Sometimes we find something and we glow all over. Like, “No one else has ever seen this.” In elementary school, we were told that Columbus discovered America. Did Columbus think he discovered America? Was he disappointed when he realized that there were people here before him?   Bernie taught us Not Knowing