More women are choosing to be single Aliza Burton, Michele Sonier, Robin Hait If you’re not married, you’re definitely not alone. The latest United States Census revealed that for the first time in the history of ever, unmarried women outnumber their married counterparts. If you haven’t noticed it before, perhaps now you will, just as I did at a recent dinner party in New York City. Although I was invited by a female friend, I assumed that most everyone else would be there as couples. As it turned out, the vast majority of attendees were women who’d either come solo or with a friend, as I had. I quickly sussed…

The more you move forward, the more life becomes clearer. Sometimes it takes a bumpy ride in life to find your inner light. June 29, 2017 by Jessica Doyle Leave a Comment — “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”  –Kurt Vonnegut Jr. “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”  –Paulo Coelho It’s common to have new ideas pop up here and there. We are wired to have new ideas occur. When you’re feeling inspired, or you’re on an…

I often have people tell me they are losing motivation and are sick of getting no results from their sales efforts. They say they have been making calls “for weeks now” and are barely making any forward motion. That’s when they add that they’re “probably not cut out for sale since you—Richard—close far more sales with far fewer calls and it’s just…not…working.” They’re tired of calling every day. Surely they should have gotten a result after a solid month of trying. It can’t be that hard, so it must be them. But they’ve overlooked one vital thing. Over 15 years ago, I lifted the phone for the first time and started dialing.…

— Emotions are a funny, fickle thing. Evolution has gifted us with the ability to connect in a meaningful way to the world around us. We are more than just cogs in a giant ecological system. We interact with and change it. How amazing is that? They can also be a curse. Some of us spend our lives running from them, building walls and massive labyrinths that those who want to know us must navigate and scale. And when they get close, when they get within our perceived danger zone, we change the rules. The walls higher, the guardians more monstrous, and the traps more perilous. Sometimes, despite our safeguards…

George Sand, the French novelist said “There is only one happiness in life—to love and be loved.” For people, like Sand, who are open to love…it is a blessing like no other. Does anyone NOT want love? It is difficult to imagine that. But there are those who claim to want love—and who surely do—but whose actions and non-verbal messages convey something very different. The result can be very sad—a loveless life and a feeling of “missing the boat.” Being open to love is mostly about what is inside. It is hard to expect and anticipate love from others if we can’t or don’t love ourselves. But sometimes we convey…

More women are choosing to be single Aliza Burton, Michele Sonier, Robin Hait If you’re not married, you’re definitely not alone. The latest United States Census revealed that for the first time in the history of ever, unmarried women outnumber their married counterparts. If you haven’t noticed it before, perhaps now you will, just as I did at a recent dinner party in New York City. Although I was invited by a female friend, I assumed that most everyone else would be there as couples. As it turned out, the vast majority of attendees were women who’d either come solo or with a friend, as I had. I quickly sussed…

— Mandy Len Catron (who wrote one of the most-shared articles in The New York Times’ Modern Love section, To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This) is back with another must-read: To Stay in Love, Sign on the Dotted Line. I love it. Before I slather on the praise I want to make one observation: A lot of people like to say that love should be effortless and shouldn’t take work. Yeah, those people are probably single. Love, in all its manifestations, takes effort and work. And, the closer you are and the more you depend on each other the more effort you put in. Sometimes you don’t want to rub your mom’s…

In America, we have set up the perfect system for creating a lot of forceful men but not nearly enough powerful men. Powerful men, though, is what the world needs now more than ever. Force Forcefulness is born in boyhood.  You know the tune: Boys don’t cry. Get over it. Do it yourself. Don’t be a baby/pussy/faggot. Go, fight, win. And on and on. The reward for adhering to these rules might be a prideful smile from Dad, a pat on the back from our peers, or no response at all, from anyone, which, oddly, motivates us to follow the rules in the future.  The punishment for breaking the rules…

— Ever since you were a kid, you’ve been lied to. By your parents. By your teachers. By the media. Like “bad lines of code” inputted into your brain, these destructive lies now shape your reality. They make you feel immense pressure to perform. They make it to be vulnerable with others. They make you feel stressed out and anxious. Thankfully, that can be changed. Over the past 2 years, I’ve gone on a powerful journey to study with spiritual teachers around the world (shamans in Peru, healers in California, tantra masters in Bali, etc), and I’ve been able to rewrite these lines of code in my own consciousness. The results have been staggering,…

If you’re anything like me, you’ve often wished for something better than you have now. It’s human nature to have that special desire—the thing we covet the most but feel is so far out of our reach, and it’s OK to wish for it. We know we’ll never have it in our hands. If only I had just one wish! That could be someone to love and cherish us; extensive travel; a great new job; a new house or apartment; a great car or; more money through a windfall. The list of wishes can be extensive but sometimes seems so elusive. What if you had the power to see into…