What to Do if You Want the Benefits of Meditation but Have Trouble Doing It
Does the world really need another post on meditation? Probably not. But there’s a reason it gets lots of…
Talk Some Nonsense Into Me
For readers who know me only from the blog, my other life entails running an information technology firm that helps multi-billion dollar organizations make better software. If you’ve ever wanted to smack your forehead in frustration over a company’s glitch-ridden…
How to Rise Above the Storm Clouds in Life
How do you feel when you walk outside to a bright blue sky? Does it feel good? It does to me.
What if the day is dark, with rainclouds hanging low? Different feeling, right? I like it sometimes if…
Why You Should Keep a Journal and How It Will Change Your Life
If there is one activity that has vastly improved my life in multiple ways, it’s journaling. I’ve mentioned this to numerous people who’ve asked me for…
What Fills Your World?
I sometimes envy people who travel the world with everything they own slung over their shoulders in a backpack. How carefree must it be to…
Watch the Moments
Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.
My friend’s dad used to say that often. It sounds old-fashioned in this day and age. Most people used to…
A Magical Power
Hundreds of years ago, remote communication on earth didn’t extend beyond smoke signals, drums in the night, or the written and spoken word traveling vast distances by ship, horse, or the lonely runner. If you had lived…
How to Foster Peace and Limit Stress
When I started training for my pilot license, I was amazed at how I felt after a flight ended. If I ever lifted off from...
Get Out of Your Head
“Stop staring at the instrument panel,” my flight instructor said, finger pointing to the blue stretch of sky beyond the windshield. “Everything that makes flying worth it is...
The Current of Life
In my last post, I promised ideas to help you flow with life versus forcing it. If you’ve been trying to force life to...
Life Flows
Continued from Life Force:
There must be an easier way.
Those words sifted through my mind five years ago as I...
Life Force
I’ve penned Lessons from the Cockpit for over four years and in all those posts I don’t believe I’ve written one as important as this. If I’ve cultivated any major life philosophy over the years, this is it…
Let Nature Spill In
Our upstairs air conditioner stopped working one Friday evening in late May. I almost called the repair guy but held off. Waiting until Monday meant…
Live Outside the Lines
Life on the ground is often rigid. We spend the better part of our days living between the lines, whether it’s the boundaries of a house or office, the narrow edges of a sidewalk, or the slightly wider lines of a…
Eyes High: A Simple Mood Lifter
Whenever I lift my eyes toward the sky, my mood improves. I noticed this a long time ago and always assumed my fondness of the sky triggered it, my inner kid spellbound by…
Lego Wasteland
Susan and I spent a recent Saturday cleaning out a few closets in dire need of organizing. One of the closets was in the…
A Double Life
I have a secret to share: I’ve been leading a double life. For many readers of this blog, I’m Christopher Laney, writer. But there’s another side to me…
Guest Post on "Lessons from the Monk I Married."
I'm pleased to announce my guest post on Katherine Jenkin's blog, "Lessons from the Monk I Married." Katherine spent every single day of 2010 blogging about 365 lessons she had learned or…
Live Your Future Now
If you suddenly found yourself with enough money so you no longer had to work, what would you do with your time? When I ask that question to a variety of people, most answers are not…
Hope for Humanity
There is a person you are meant to be. You know this because you’ve dreamed of it. Perhaps that person is a painter or a photographer. Maybe it’s an entrepreneur or a scientist. But whatever the goal, many of us have…