by toby | Nov 24, 2017 | Author Coaching
Creating new traditions is something we can do at any time, but it happens of necessity when something major changes in life: a death, a divorce, a big move, a job change, a new marriage, the birth of a child. This year, I have gone through five of the six (and not...
by toby | Aug 19, 2017 | Author Coaching
Happiness is an inside job, even when your home is a tropical island paradise. Extreme beauty can actually distort perspective. Every other place is then seen through rainbow-tinted spectacles. I’ve been fortunate by design, spending the majority of my life in...
by toby | Aug 1, 2016 | Life
Five reasons procrastination is a valid coping strategy took form in my thoughts as my co-authoring partner, Emily Kimelman, and I deferred, for the third time, a difficult task we needed tackle involving coordinating a day-by-day timeline of the plot of our series...
by toby | Jan 16, 2015 | Life
Been thinking ten wise things I've learned from turning fifty. Yesterday was one of those big birthdays—you know, the ones where people do retrospective slide shows or big parties or go on a cruise to see the Dalai Lama. I chose to go back to some of my roots, on the...
by toby | Dec 2, 2014 | Life
How have smartphones changed us? I was an initial resister to the smartphone, having vague “mental health” concerns about intrusiveness, getting overly attached to my device, not being present in the moment, and being tracked by government agencies just because they...