There’s a fun flick from 2004 called Kung Fu Hustle–it’s about a guy having illusions of grandeur but nothing’s going his way. He wants to be a bad-ass member of the Axe Gang, the most feared gang around, but he’s not mean enough, scary enough, or strong enough to pull it off.  All of his [...]

The following article was published in the Nevada City Advocate. It includes the hyperlinks that I wasn’t able to put in the print version. In my last workshop series, one of the participants, we’ll call her Lyn, questioned my notion of “letting systems do the work”. We were talking about not using the head as [...]

[I'm doing some digital house-cleaning and found this column hadn't been posted on the blog. It was originally published in the October 2009 publication of the Nevada City Advocate.] Consider this: your cluttered mind isn’t a by-product of the external stuff, it’s the cause of the craziness. When we say that we want things to [...]

[I'm doing some digital house-cleaning and found this column hadn't been posted on the blog. It was originally published in the September 2009 publication of the Nevada City Advocate.] You don’t have to surrender to an increasingly complicated world. One of the most common conversations I hear around town hinges on a variation of simplifying: [...]

Let’s talk about bills. They happen. Repeatedly. For many people, bill paying is a bit stressful so the easier you make it on yourself the better. (If your bill paying situation is dialed in and hassle-free, Congrats! You can skip on to the next section.) Here are 3 ways to simplify your bill pay process. [...]

[This column originally published in the February 2011 publication of the Nevada City Advocate.] Recently a fellow Toastmaster began her speech with the idea that nature abhors a vacuum. “How else would you explain that whenever you make space in your schedule, it gets filled immediately?” she pondered. Not being familiar with the saying, “nature [...]

My Simplify article for the February issue of the Nevada City Advocate has been posted on online. The editor called it: How we change the world without Big Brother. It’s more about my dream for the world I’d like to leave for my unborn niece (actually, a nephew could just as well be brewing in [...]