
How do you eat an elephant?
How do you eat an elephant? ... One bite at a time. Perfect advice from a Facebook friend as I looked out my window from my hotel in Chamonix, France at the enormous massif, Mont Blanc. We were supposed to climb it the next day. I wrote on Facebook something to the effect of, this mountain is huge and seems impossible. A comment popped up almost immediately under my post: "How do you eat and elephant? One bite at a time." He was right. Focusing on the individual steps made th

Why should I care about Mindfulness?
It can help you with stress resilience. What is stress resilience? It is an incredible ability that will help you live a long happy life. Sounds great right? How does it work? Imagine someone hurts you to your core. You are raw, disoriented, paralyzed and eventually angry. You are consumed by it, distracted. It makes you sick. You can’t eat, sleep or think. Some of us retaliate, some hold grudges, some bury it away in a corner of our minds. All these coping strategies are of