My wife and I returned today from camping in the California foothills. It was a beautiful weekend and we spent most of it around the campfire with other family members. Several times this weekend I was reminded of the love my wife has for me by the little things she did: covering me [...]

When I began thinking about the seven actions of life, I knew health would have to be one of the key components of this framework. When trying to define my health as an action, I started with words like diet and exercise. The problem is that these actions are just a part of [...]

There’s no debate, Albert Einstein was a smart guy. The renowned physicist’s resume includes a PhD from the University of Zurich, a 1921 Nobel Peace Prize, member Prussian Academy of Science, Time’s Person of the Century, and Gallup Polls’s fourth most admired person of the 20th century. Al also had a Peace Prize, chemical element, [...]

Most of us think of work as the time we spend earning money to enjoy the rest of our time. Or, as the bumper sticker with the seven dwarfs said, “I owe, I owe, so off to work I go!” And there’s no denying it, for most of us, work is a necessity [...]

[If you've been following the Seven Action Series, the next post in the series will appear on Monday.]
After writing that last post on the important of play, I figured it was time to share my personal goal for the action of playing.
Goal: I will spend at least one hour each week in an outdoor [...]

When we think of play, we usually picture children. But play is valuable to adults as well. When we were young, play was our social networking, our way of learning, our exercise and our escape. The same is still true in adulthood, but may of us have forgotten how to play. [...]