Recently I was reflecting on my previous years, and I realized that my teacher was right. “Some Days” never come. Sorry to be a dream stealer! But if you are like me, if you are putting things away until some day, that day will never happen. Not until you stop procrastinating...
People quite often complain to me that meditation doesn’t work in the middle of emotional hurricane. I know, I’ve been there too. That’s why I practice and teach moving meditation approach...
One of the questions I hear periodically, is when is a good time to start teaching? Right now with all yoga teacher’s training, sometimes people see becoming a teacher as a line in a sand. To me, honestly, certificate is just a permission to learn on the higher level...
Many years ago, one of my teachers said, that we can achieve a certain level of mastery in yoga or martial arts, or whatever. However, there’s a price we have to pay. That is our time...
My coach talking about the Dash. He said, when we die, we’ll have two dates on our tombstone: the date we were born and the date we die. But there’s a little dash in between...
Have you ever had a feeling that you are not accomplishing anything? Even if you are working on the subject. I noticed that one of two things may happen: either dream looks too big, or steps to achieve it look too small. Like nothing at all. I’ve experienced over-doing. I think the most noticeable, at least for me, it shows in working out. Everything hurts the next day. But I’ve learned the secret...
A listener asked me a question about Self-Esteem. I think the question is greater than the person trying to answer it. You see, I’ve been at the bottom of emotional hole too. I had moments when I was feeling very low...
Have you ever heard that rules exist so we can break them? No, no, no! I am not asking you to do anything illegal. The law is the law whether we like it or not. Today I’d like to discuss bending rules...
Moving forward is important. My coach told me, you can’t steer a parked car. But I think people more often than not get in trouble because of their inability to...
What does the green light mean? I think many people would answer the same way I answered: “It means GO!” Right? Wrong! Many lose their lives because of that...
Achieving any degree of success is usually associated with increased interaction with other people. Success is not built on individual level...
Do you think my mind would be free from BS after years of practice? I think I need a few decades more. And I am not even reporting to anybody. What if I had a boss? Isn’t it what so many people do? Come up with excuses even in small things...
My coaches recently, and he said, “You can count seeds in the apple, but you cannot count apples in a seed.” I looked up on internet and found this quote by Karen Jensen. It has the second part...
Have you ever failed? Come on, don’t be shy! I have. And I’ve never met anybody who’d never failed at something. So everybody has. And everybody will. The question is not “Will I fail?” Yes, you will! And I will. The main question is...
I learned from my coach that neither you nor I can pass or fail a human being. We are all individuals, and failure is an event, not a person and even not a lifestyle. We cannot define the person as a failure. What we can do...
Perhaps the most important lesson I received from him, was about personal learning. He was not coming to teach us. He was coming to practice for himself. He was not trying to convince me to come in. In fact, it took me a while...
I was listening to my coach this past weekend, and he was talking about perhaps the most important quality of the leader. And no, that was not a great knowledge, or ability to organize, motivate, develop vision or set the plan of actions. That’s not even a work ethics, even though that’s essential. My coach was talking about…
This is what I see people do a lot in every day life: they talk, argue, philosophize, but they miss most important component for their success...
If you want to achieve success, find somebody who has what you want. We cannot share what we don’t have...
“If you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room.” I understand, if you are in life exactly where you want to be, and you absolutely don’t want to improve anything, this statement may not apply to you. That’s fine with me. But if you are like me, a person who is trying to improve and grow personally and professionally, then I am talking to you...
Leo Tolstoy said, “Everyone thinks of changing the World, but no one thinks of changing himself.” Do you want to live in a better more peaceful World? How about changing? Changing yourself?..
Many years ago when I started working at the university, the same one I graduated from, my boss, who was my former professor, told me the most important rule of working there. He said...
Quite often the solution cannot be placed inside certain boundaries. It has to be wider, and the outline of the solution may not match the outline of the original problem...
Someone asked Socrates, “Do you know what people are saying about you?" Socrates stopped that person and asked him to use three filters. I think they are still applicable today as they were over 2,000 years ago...
Are you investing in your health? I know, you may be a busy professional. You have no time to invest in yourself. Here’s a new perspective for you...