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Two weeks ago, I started meditating for an hour most mornings. My evening meditation practice had waned in recent weeks due to illness, and I was feeling very agitated from stress at work and from dealing with a failed real estate investment. I needed to find my center and knew that meditating in the morning would help me get there.

After meditating that first morning, I did an exercise in the book, Creating Money: Attracting Abundance. The purpose of the exercise was to find a symbol to… Continue

As Ken Sloan recently wrote to me in email, “we really are in a collective death/rebirth right now, at so many levels, including the very personal.” Last week, over 100,000 people in the Unites States got laid off from their jobs. That’s both a stark example of a collective death/rebirth, as well as 100,000 very personal deaths and rebirths.

The week before these massive layoffs, the company where I work laid off 1,300 employees. I wasn’t one of them, which I must say I’m grateful for, given cu… Continue

Ten days ago, the company where I work as a technical editor announced that a big layoff is coming. Somewhere between 5,000 to 6,000 people will lose their jobs; that’s almost one in five employees. The layoff will hit all company locations across the globe, starting in the United States in January.

I knew another layoff was coming. In the past six or seven years, in good economic times, my company has done almost yearly layoffs. In this troubled economy, many of our customers, which include la… Continue