So, when I tell people that I’m leaving my six-figure corporate income behind to travel India, study yoga and spend a month living at an ashram, I’m met with a typical blank stare followed by a few deer-in-headlight blinks before the “you’re doing what?” auto-response. It doesn’t happen every time, but at least 50% of people I tell respond accordingly. It’s a pretty natural response…I’d probably ...
Travel Plans Unveiled: A Mini-Retirement in India
So a little more on my plans for 2008. When I embarked on the Skeptic Yogi project, I wanted to wholeheartedly open myself up to new ideas, opportunities, different ways of looking at the world and truly living a life congruent with my own values and desires. So I’ve done the yoga, the mediation, the self-reflection, and introspection, and I’ve ended up in a place where I am starting to see who ...
Happy Holidays from the Beach
Wishing everyone a happy and healthy holiday season! I’m here on the beach in Cabo with the beau, relaxing in the sun and doing a ton of nothing. Its bliss!I would say I am most thankful at this time for the power of change. A change of pace (Cabo instead of Toronto), a change of timing (celebrating traditional Christmas in place of New Years eve – which I’m not a fan of) and a change in ...
Who’s Expectations Are You Living Up To?
As I was driving home tonight, I was examining my relationship with an old friend who is no longer in my life. We had a very intense and deep friendship and we experienced quite a few major life events together. But it was hard. I wondered why it was so much harder than all my other friendships, and thought about why it ultimately failed in the end. I believe the answer was that I didn’t meet ...
Month 4 Check in and BIG NEWS!!!
So it’s been 4 months since I started my Skeptic Yogi Adventures. Since then I’ve started: • a daily practice of bite size yoga (10 to 20 min. sessions) along with full length practices at least twice a week • a daily meditation practice of at least 10 min. per session (sometimes twice daily if the mood and opportunity strikes me) • I’ve read a sloth of books that have inspired creativity and ...
Measuring Happinesss
There seems to be a serge of personal “happiness projects” and various books on the subject of measuring perceived happiness. Wow…think about that for a moment. We’ve become so academic about something that is as natural to our existence as breathing that it almost seems separate from ourselves. Even the thought of making it a project, or something that I need to consciously plan out and ...
