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Maple Syrup Season

Welcome to a new moon and a new season! The creeks are full and the yards are sloppy with freeze/thaw/freeze. I spent about an hour getting my car unstuck from a soft spot in my driveway this weekend.

Some call…

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Joyous Kwanzaa

Today is the 1st day of Kwanzaa!

If you don’t already know about Kwanzaa, I encourage you to check it out and maybe think of folding a bit more meaning and purpose into the last week of the year…

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Flexing Your $$ Power

It's that time of the year… I could remind you to slow down, to take breaks, to savor time spent with friends and loved ones… but that’s stuff you already know.

Here’s something happening that you might not know: t…

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It's Spring!

…and that means Passover, Palm Sunday and Easter.

Over the next 2 weeks, many folks will likely be doing things with family and close friends, which is a perfect time to practice the Feldi philosophies you’ve honed through our lessons…

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Who Are You?

We all have stories about everything. It's part of being human. We especially have stories about ourselves, and they make up our self-image. 

Sometimes we repeat things we were told about ourselves as children, or something we discovered about ourselves…

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Acting from Abundance

So I recently returned from the annual Landscape Architecture Conference, and I now know that Halloween weekend in Minneapolis is a Thing! I also learned a bit about how your internal attitude changes your world.

The conference is driven by…

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Letting Go

Sometimes the obstacle that's keeping you from moving forward is behind you. It's an anchor, keeping you in place despite efforts to move, change, or flow.

I realized recently that what was challenging me was myself… holding on to my…

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Real Needs

Sometimes I find myself thinking about all the stuff I need that I don't have, or feeling like I'm lacking, or impoverished, and that I need more. I call this scarcity thinking.

The idea of scarcity is what drives the…

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Somatic Interventions for Productivity: Movement

The mind and body are an integrated mobius strip which influence one another. How we move changes how we think, and recent neuroscience explains this interconnection in ever increasing clarity. As designers, we can integrate this information into our professional…

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Work Smarter, Not Harder

Neuroscience has come a long way in the last decade. We know so much more than we ever did about the mechanisms of how our brain thinks, perceives, calculates and comes up with new ideas. It's time to apply some…

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Resting While You Work

I don't know about you but I've got a number of balls in the air. I can juggle a bit, but I'm not great at it, and I also have a limited amount of energy so I need to be…

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Are Your Habits Serving You?

We all have habits. Some are healthy, like flossing, and some are less so, like smoking. But when you think of all that you do, the real question is, what do you do that is NOT a habit? How you…

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