Two monkeys in a glass cage are separated by a see-through barrier. Both are given the same task, for which they are rewarded a slice of cucumber. This process repeats over and over, with each monkey happily accepting the cucumber for their identical task. But then, one monkey is rewarded with a delicious grape while […]

The average smartphone user has 42 Apps on their device and if you are a teenager, chances are that number is north of 100. They are so ubiquitous we are all now intimately familiar with the usual suspects: Facebook, Twitter, Google, Instagram and the corresponding behavior associated with them i.e., eyes glued to the screen, […]

If the task of the first half of life is to put yourself out there to experience the world, the mandate of the second half is to make sense of where you have been and discover who are truly are.  Your first love, travel adventures, career, marriage, children – virtually all of life’s major experiences […]

I know a workaholic who is a traveling salesman, a real road warrior. He thrives on chasing the deal and meeting new people and I always envied his unrelenting passion for his career. But he recently confided to me that it was not all a joyous endeavor, that he hated flying with the constant plane […]

It is hard to see the forest for the trees but most of us traverse up two mountains in our lifetime. We start to climb our first mountain when we are young, as we establish our identity and satisfy our ego. We learn how to navigate our personal journey, often through trial and error, as […]

Perhaps we should amend the famous cliche by adding the following: The only thing certain in life is death and taxes…and stress!  None of us can escape stress – it is, quite simply, omnipresent and ubiquitous in our busy lives today like a toxic element that floats in the air that we all breathe.  The […]

Remember those wonderful bedtime stories your parents would tell you to lull you to sleep, letting your fertile imagination run wild? The world was full of magical possibilities as we gently dosed off into dreamland with warm and fuzzy feelings in the safe comfort of our home. The storytelling continues as we become adults and […]

I love watching the graceful transition from Summer to Fall. Mother Nature takes her sweet time with such gradual, incremental changes we barely take notice. Dawn breaks a few seconds later and the sun sets a few seconds earlier, compressing each passing day as we crawl towards Ol’ Man Winter in these lazy Autumn days. […]

We all have an expertise in a certain area of our life, where we are proficient in this dimension of our daily routine and feel we have mastered this realm. After years of practice and discipline, you may now be brilliant in the kitchen, raising children, working out and/or your career. This is to be […]

Ever since launching this website a few years ago, people have asked where I find my inspiration to be such a prolific writer.  Truth is, I had always struggled with endless bouts of writer’s block which would occasionally paralyze me for months on end.  When I wrote proposals for work or columns for a school […]