Happy New Year!

This year my mindful resolutions is to create a more personal approach to this blog. For years I have provided many free resources on how to meditate, practice yoga, eat mindfully and live mindfully 🙂

Don’t worry — the resources will still be free! They will just have a personal touch by yours truly. I’ll share my experiences, insights and continued journey to enlightenment. It’s true you can’t attain enlightenment in one life-time or a million, it’s a slow infinite progression.

I’ll start with some personal news. I recently sustained a pretty severe knee injury — I tore my ACL while mountain biking. It’s a tragedy but also an opportunity. An opportunity to share more of my story and experience and growth through this injury. It’s an opportunity for perspective — someone always has it worse than you and me. This injury has also taught me many lessons universal to life: Be glad for what you have. Walk slow.  Don’t dwell on what happened. Focus on the future. Without grief there is no joy.

Mindful Resolutions

Even with this injury I intend to travel and enjoy life to the fullest. I’ll slow down as much as I need to do stay present and heal. I look forward to sharing photos from my journeys, meditations and thoughts. I hope you enjoy this new format!

Here is a photo from a recent adventure in my own backyard here in Las Vegas. The low clouds danced above the horizon in a dance that sang to my soul. I got lost in the moment photographing these amazing peaks – so much so that I almost got frostbite.

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I also intend to up the cadence of my writing. I have resolved to journal more – using this great platform to listen and learn as well. The best way for me to learn from the community is for the community to ask questions, provide feedback and interact. I hope to hear from you !

 

Why Most Resolutions Fail — And What to Do Instead

Traditional New Year’s resolutions are goal-focused: lose weight, exercise more, read 20 books. They’re outcome-based, which means the moment progress stalls — and it always does — the motivation collapses. The resolution dies, often by February, and the cycle of self-criticism begins.

Mindful resolutions work differently. Instead of fixing your eye on a distant destination, they ask: how do you want to feel each day? What quality of attention do you want to bring to your life? These are process-oriented intentions, and they’re far more durable.

Five Mindful Intentions Worth Setting This Year

• Practice one minute of silence each morning — before the phone, before the news, before the day begins. One minute of stillness resets your nervous system and reminds you that you are more than your to-do list.
• Respond, don’t react — when something provokes you, pause before responding. Three breaths. That pause is the practice. It’s where mindfulness lives in real life.
• Read one thing that challenges you — not content that confirms what you already believe, but something that requires genuine open-mindedness. Growth happens at the edge of comfort.
• End each day with gratitude — not a forced list, but a genuine acknowledgment of one specific thing that went well. Over time, this trains attention toward abundance rather than lack.
• Let go of one story you’re telling yourself — we all carry narratives about who we are and what we’re capable of. Choose one limiting belief and gently question it throughout the year.

The Spirit Behind Mindful Resolutions

The point isn’t to become a different person by December. It’s to become more fully yourself — more present, more honest, more awake to the life you’re already living. That’s not a resolution you achieve. It’s a direction you keep choosing, every single day.

Whatever this year brings — uncertainty, challenge, unexpected joy — the invitation is always the same: show up with open hands and a quiet mind. That is enough.