I just published a new guest post at The Change Blog called “Procrastination and the Art of Allowing.” 
Normally, when uncomfortable thoughts and sensations come up as we’re working, we tend to run away from them by playing FreeCell or chasing some other distraction — and, voila, we have procrastination.  But when we simply relax our [...]

I suspect we all have moments when we gripe to ourselves, or others, “why am I doing this?”  Perhaps we’re thinking about our career, troublesome relationships in our lives, our exercise routines, or something else.  Usually, we aren’t really interested in the answer—it’s just something we say to ourselves when we hit a certain depth [...]