I made a commitment to a close friend that I will write a new post to my blog each week at least for a while to share my truth, to express my heart, and to serve the greater good. I was immersed and inspired during the recent Revelation Conference hosted by Agape, with a variety [...]
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Risking It All To Live Authentically
By Barry on May 16, 2012 in authentic, authenticity, calling, change, choice, coach, commit, commitment, date, dating, ego, free, freedom, gift, grateful, gratitude, health, human, humble, humility, integrity, intention, language, leader, leadership, love, partner, passion, photography, purpose, Relationship, romance, self, serve, trust, word
How To Leave While You’re In Love
By Barry on May 16, 2012 in break-up, commit, commitment, communication, date, dating, free, freedom, gratitude, healing, health, human, humble, humility, integrity, intention, love, men, partner, passion, polarity, Relationship, romance, self, sex, trust, women
I wish one of my relationship expert friends would write a specific article on “How To Leave While You’re In Love”. This has been one of the hardest things to do because, right or wrong, I still love him so much. I just had to take a stand for real partnership that I’m committed to [...]
41 in 16*: Adventures in House-Sitting. Lesson 6: Freedom
By Barry on May 16, 2012 in adapt, adaptable, authenticity, butterfly, caterpillar, change, choice, coach, emotion, faith, flexibility, flexible, free, freedom, galaxy, grateful, gratitude, healing, hitchhiker, house-sit, humility, intention, mental, olympic, olympics, purpose, reaction, Relationship, trust, victim, Victor Frankl
had originally intended to write about a different lesson at this point in the journey. Even though I had written quite a lot, it wasn’t coming together and feeling ready to share. I sat with that for a few days, and during a time of contemplation and reflection, the word freedom loomed large in my awareness (!), [...]
38 into 16*: Adventures in House-Sitting. Lesson 5: Flexibility
By Barry on May 16, 2012 in adapt, adaptable, calling, change, choice, coach, communication, couch-surf, faith, flexibility, flexible, gratitude, house-sit, humble, humility, integrity, intention, mental, nomad, passion, purpose, trust, victim
Looking back over these past months, a fundamental skill I have honed over this time has been my ability to be flexible, not simply in the physical plane about housing accommodations, but perhaps more importantly flexible on the mental plane. Having flexible thinking kept me adaptable, willing and nimble. It is truly the core of [...]
37 into 15: Adventures in House-Sitting. Lesson 4: Choice
By Barry on May 16, 2012 in assume, assumption, choice, communication, couch-surf, ego, emotion, faith, gratitude, house-sit, integrity, judge, judgment, mental, physical, purpose, reaction, Relationship, trust, victim
Believing we don’t have a choice is a lie! Let me say that another way – YOU HAVE CHOICE IN EVERY MOMENT! “It is the ability to choose which makes us human.” Madeleine L’Engle “We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.” Kahlil Gibran “I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it’s [...]
37 into 15: Adventures in House-Sitting. Lesson 2: Humility
By Barry on May 16, 2012 in authenticity, choice, communication, ego, faith, forgive, gratitude, house-sit, humble, humility, integrity, judge, judgment, leap of faith, mental, projection, reaction, self, soul, spirit, trust, victim
Humility means different things to different people. For some, it means weakness or being less than. For others it has connotations of shame or chagrin. For still others it means emptying out and being unattached. My own interpretation of humility is closer to the latter – I describe it as releasing of the ego in [...]
37 into 15: Adventures in House-Sitting. Lesson 1: Initiation
By Barry on May 16, 2012 in authenticity, change, choice, communication, emotion, emotional, faith, forgive, gratitude, healing, house-sit, human, humble, humility, integrity, judge, judgment, leap of faith, mental, nomad, passion, physical, purpose, reaction, Relationship, self, spirit, trust
Saying there was a little trepidation as I took what was one HUGE leap of faith is about as accurate as calling the weather in Los Angeles slightly sunny! To give up where I was living and choose to house-sit and couch surf, what was I thinking? Looking back, I recognize that I had absolutely no idea [...]
Insanity
By Barry on May 16, 2012 in assume, assumption, authentic, authenticity, blame, care, coach, communication, emotion, forgive, gratitude, healing, health, human, integrity, judge, judgment, mental, passion, physical, projection, purpose, reaction, Relationship, self, trap, trust, victim
Insanity is a strong word, isn’t it? Do you know someone you believe is insane? How do you feel about them? Does insanity mean something bad to you, something negative or something that is unsanitary or unpleasant? For the focus of this blog post, let’s take insanity out of the clinical and psychiatric and place it into [...]
3 Massive Mistakes That Create A Crappy Relationship, Where The Sex Sucks, And Relaxing As You Is Impossible.
By Barry on May 16, 2012 in assume, assumption, authentic, authenticity, coach, communication, feminine, integrity, masculine, mask, men, passion, purpose, Relationship, trust, women
Did that title grab your attention? Glad to hear it! It is my hope that you may pick up some useful tips that will make your relationships a whole lot more passionate, entertaining, rewarding, and rich. This article is aimed at the monogamous straight relationship folks, so I am using masculine, warrior and men interchangeably [...]