Right Here! Right Now!

Here it is - The final episode of Season 1 of Right Here! Right Now! I am so excited and honored to have been able to share this practice and various insights of mindfulness with each of you. Creating and contemplating this final episode has helped me grapple with the "Mindfulness Mindset" and how we can see how it can fit into our lives in a more practical way without getting too caught...

How can looking back on fondly held memories help in being more mindfully present? How does nostalgia help to experience today’s moments more fully? Let’s discover these questions and ask many more - Right Here! Right Now!  Feedback? Ideas? Send us a message

And so today as promised, we will take a deeper dive into the masterpiece - “Think Again - The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know” by the insightful thought leader Adam Grant.   Today’s principles really lay the foundation of how our minds will tackle with new information - new thoughts - opposing ideas even.   We will talk a bit about how our hearts play into the learning and unlearning process...

Be mindful and be present in your connection to others in this world - Right Here! Right Now!  Feedback? Ideas? Send us a message

If you are not familiar with Adam Grant - YOU’RE WELCOME here people! Adam Grant - is such an incredible author and an insightful organizational psychologist.  He is a researcher  and he is the ultimate writer and scholar in  the most profound ideas that challenge how we think and look upon the world we live in.  My very first encounter with Adam Grant was when he was a guest on Jay Shetty’s podca...

My Intention of Empathy for You - Right Here! Right Now!  Come on this short journey of how we can be better at understanding the feelings and emotions of those closest to us!   Feedback? Ideas? Send us a message

It's creativity today people!! I want to share a few quotes that I came across at very poignant times over the last few weeks… and these insights will lead us into a nice reflection on how being more mindfully present might allow our creative spirits to shine!!  The creative spirit that we all possess and where some of us are more natural than others in expressing our creative spirits… hopefu...

We are going to do a deep dive on the following passage from "365 Days of Kindness" from BroadStreet Publishing - a spiritual daily read book with some amazing insights on how to spread kindness.  “Encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.” from Thessalonians“ There are dependent people and there are independent people. In our culture, we think that independe...

My intention for you - be present and be mindful - Right Here! Right Now! Feedback? Ideas? Send us a message

Today we are reviewing Cory Muscara's amazing book: "Stop Missing Your LIfe"! This was an amazing story on how we can use very practical information to be better humans and more mindfully present and connected to our moments. Cory has an incredible definition of PRESENCE - “[Presence] is more than simply being aware of the moment; it’s bringing our full selves into the moment, and t...

It’s the POWER OF POSSIBILITY TODAY PEOPLE!!  The power of possibility should inspire all of us to continue to work on being better people!  I recently came across a beautiful poem in this amazing book by Courtney Peppernell.  The book is called “Watering the Soul” and is full of inspirational poems and passages from the heart of a struggling poet.   “The possibility of becoming the breath of fres...

We are talking Humor today people!! We will dive into the Science of humor as we review some great insights in the book "Humor, Seriously - Why Humor is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life (And how anyone can harness it. Even you.)” This book is by Dr. Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas: Dr. Aaker is the General Atlantic Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business; Naomi is a lectur...

Be present - Be mindful - Be generous - Right Here! Right Now! Is there any greater gift than the gift of life?   April is National Donate Life Month.  The Donate Life website informs us that by registering to be an organ donor - “You can save up to 8 lives and heal the lives of more than 75 people. Your registration serves as a symbol of hope to patients waiting, and sharing it with your family l...

“Every moment is an opportunity for a fresh start. Yes, one could argue that everything that has preceded this moment has created who you are and how you think. AND you still have the capacity to notice the momentum of your life pushing you in a certain direction, be still, and choose a new response. As you wind down the day, see if you can view tomorrow as the beginning of the rest of your life.”...

Be present and be mindful people!! Right Here! Right Now! “People don’t realize how important it is to wake up every morning with a song in your heart.” ~Jiddu Krishnamurti  But you must be looking for it – you must have your head up – you must be present in the moments of life – RIGHT HERE! RIGHT NOW! Remind yourself that we cannot experience our lives without transforming our minds into this “be...

We have, likely for the first time in most of our lives, experienced the uncertain feeling of not knowing if we might be able to get our hands (or our hearts) on something that we so badly needed.  Our world has changed – AND we have changed; but I am not sure that we have accepted these two realities or that we even know how these changes would align into a new way of experiencing the world and r...

Be present - Be mindful People - Right Here! Right Now! “The good we do lives on in other people, in other places, in other times. Generosity lives on forever.” Wow!! This week’s quick hit quote comes from an amazing little book that just came out - The Generosity Habit by Matthew Kelly.  This quote inspires me to be more generous and this quote made me think that the feelings evoked by the genero...

Today we are talking about Mindfulness and the science that lets us know how it works and how we can understand it better so that it may work better for us.  I will be sharing what I learned from Dr. Amishi Jha's new book - “Peak Mind  - Find Your Focus - Own Your Attention - Invest 12 Minutes a Day”.   Amishi says in her book that “Mindfulness is the capacity to be PRESENT: to take in an exp...

This week's Quick Hit Quote comes to us from Marcus Tullius Cicero (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero), a roman statesmen. This is one of my favorite quotes about the passion of the reader: "A room without books is like a body without a soul." Today's message is about how the reader (and learner) in you can be drawn out at the right time with the right book - with no pressur...

Wendell Philips said “What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.” Learning! Not losing! Taking away lessons!! Not being conquered!! This philosophy centers on CURIOSITY - it is not about keeping score or comparison or the tension that may come from these mindsets. As we come upon the season of Spring, recognize in this philosophy that we have the capaci...