Year: 2010

  • Doing What You Love vs Loving What You Do

    Are you doing what you love? Do you love what you do? Is there….a…..difference? Recently, I read this distinction between doing what you love and loving what you do. Before, I get to that though, let me tell a short story. Once, there was a poor boy who didn’t have the skills and knowledge to…

  • DO Talk to Strangers

    Remember when you were a kid, and your parents told you not to talk to strangers? After all, the world is a big, scary, and dangerous place, right? These protective, well intended rules become ingrained habits that limit our happiness and success as an adult. In the past few months, I’ve made it a point…

  • The Year of Challenges

    When I was a graduate student, I didn’t like how others would say, “You’re still in school” as if somehow I was on vacation or not working as hard as everyone else. Mind you, I was also working as a teaching assistant and still had my old computer tech job so I was easily pushing…

  • Post Meditation Bootcamp Thoughts

    Hello world, I returned to civilization on Sunday, May 30th after 10 days of grueling meditation. I’m still at a lost for words on how to encapsulate the experience or what lasting impact meditation will have on my life. So, here’s a list of lessons I learned. It was a Bootcamp, not a mere class…

  • Goodbye World, Going to a Vipassana Meditation Retreat

    http://www.pacifickriya.org/?action=news&id=1184635819 Thursday morning, I will be leaving to a 10 Day Vipassana Meditation Retreat from May 19th to May 30th, 2010.. During the retreat, I will be sitting, eating, walking, and sleeping by myself. I will be free from all the everyday distractions such as work, television, people, and extraneous thoughts leaving me to just…