Daily Meditation #287–12/6/2022 This will come as a surprise to many, but numbers will nearly never make you happy. Making more money than last year. Having more likes than yesterday. Getting more followers for the sake of followers. Doesn’t matter what the numbers represent, they don’t make us happy. The…

Daily Meditation #286 — 12/5/2022 On the cold, salt-stained pavement of the Walmart parking lot, today, there were four tiny finches. They were hopping and twittering merrily as they ate the remains of a frozen and crushed french fry. I couldn’t help but watch them a moment. They seemed so…

Daily Meditation #285–12/4/2022 Chuck Palahniuk said it best in Fight Club, “In the Sylvia Plath sense of the word, we are all dying.” Because we are. The moment you burst from your mother’s womb, slick with placenta, blood, and mucus, screaming and pink, your clock is tick, tick, ticking. We’re…

Daily Meditation #284–12/3/2022 Animal Meditation Series — I II One of the more recognizable birds in the world, the cardinal, with its flaming red crest, has long represented hope or good fortune. However, they also offer us a great lesson on our relationships and love. Cardinals are one of the…

Daily Meditation #283–12/2/2022 The world may change. It may be changing. It might insist that certain beliefs, or morals, or ethics must also change. But they don’t have to. You do not have to change your beliefs. You do not have to change your morals. …

Daily Meditation #281–12/1/2022 Have you ever had one of those days where you feel a little catch, a little tickle in your throat? A touch nauseous? You climb into bed with a subtle dread, thinking “I’m pretty sure I will wake up full blown sick.” That was me, today. Yesterday…

Daily Meditation #281–11/30/2022 Butterflies are magnificent creatures. So fragile and petite. They fly in a whimsical, dancing manner on the breezes, feinting around any attempts to grab them or interfere. For some, they migrate thousands of miles to their places they were hatched, lay eggs, and then the offspring will…

Daily Meditation #280–11/29/2022 In Jocko Willink’s book Discipline Equals Freedom, he has a segment talking about the importance of fearing failure. And I agree. Bringing this idea into the framework of Eudaimonia, I like to audit myself. For Physical Wellness, what would failure look like for myself? Maybe I let…

Daily Meditation #279–11/28/2022 There is an old joke that something is “only illegal if you get caught.” The logical extension is “Is it wrong if no one catches me?” or “If no one sees me?” For all except the sociopaths or supreme narcissists, if something is “wrong” — especially by…