25Mar 2018 by CJ

Make it count – how well are you spending your time?

Life & Living
"I have one life and one chance to make it count for something." - Jimmy Carter If there’s one thing humanity continually takes for granted, regardless of circumstance, it’s time. We naively believe there’s an endless reserve of sand in the hourglass, but the reality is time is not infinite – you need to make it count today. So, the one thing humanity takes for granted is time, and the one thing we always say is there never seems to be enough of it. I agree on that point. Between work, household chores, relationships and hobbies, it’s not often easy to find time in one’s schedule for all the things we need to do and want to do during any given week. Something inevitably gets shunned and shortly thereafter we’re left…
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21Mar 2018 by CJ
Healing doesn’t come without work and admission

Healing doesn’t come without work and admission

Life & Living
"If there's no breaking then there's no healing, and if there's no healing then there's no learning." - One Tree Hill The other night, I took part in a Fusion Healing Yoga Class at Prizm Yoga & Fitness. The class combines yoga and individualized energy healing, designed to help you work through your energetic issues and blocks, while experiencing a more open mindset. Healing has been somewhat elusive to me over the last decade, regardless of counselling and self-help books geared towards changing my cognitive behaviors once and for all. Yes, they’ve provided me with invaluable tools in order to cope through my daily existence, but I’m not sure any of them provided me with longstanding benefits. At some point, you settle into normalcy and convince yourself that you’ve been able…
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27Feb 2018 by CJ

The moon is a constant companion we often take for granted

Life & Living
“I never really thought about how when I look at the moon, it’s the same moon as Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at.” - Susan Beth Pfeffer, Life As We Knew It There are some nights, when I’m walking towards a large expanse of windows at the back of my house, that I’m mesmerized by the cool, crisp, unobstructed light of the moon. It bathes my entire yard with an intense glow one might assume is coming from an exterior house light. I find myself just standing there like a young boy – utterly amazed by the astronomical body high above my head. But beyond any famed or revered individuals from our history, it’s somewhat comforting to know that my grandfather, and his father before him,…
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24Feb 2018 by CJ

My lifeline – those who make the journey rewarding

Generosity & Kindness
You are my lifeline, you are my rescue Strength in my weakness, light in my darkness You are my safety, lifter of my head The air that I need when, I can't seem to breath in You are my lifeline When I first heard the refrain to You Are My Lifeline, I found myself playing it over and over again – each time feeling more inspired, more hopeful and more grateful. One thing that’s come with age is the ability to be more introspective. The reckless abandon which once drove my decisions, has been replaced with continual thought and reflection. It’s been that reflection which has provided me the most clarity about what’s truly important on the journey we’re all privileged to take for an unspecified duration. What I’ve come…
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15Feb 2018 by CJ

A contribution is about more than just being a doer

Life & Living, Love & Relationships
“Great ambition and conquest without contribution is without significance. What will your contribution be? How will history remember you?”  - William Hundert It’s been almost four years since my wife and I moved to Colorado from New Jersey. While we both were fortunate to secure jobs early on, I’m not sure they were truly “careers” for either one of us. Eventually, we found ourselves asking the question, what is my contribution? Three years into her career, my wife was blessed to find a new position with ideal circumstances to suit her. But as my organization continued to evolve, I found myself growing frustrated over the reality that I had become a “doer” not a “contributor”. David Lagercrantz once wrote, “You either have a useful contribution to make or you don’t,…
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