THE ORIGIN OF THIS MANIFESTO… Suppose you get just one more week to live. Seven days. Then your life returns to where it came. What would you do? Urban Monk‘s little project of donating money to charity in exchange for bloggers writing their hypothetical “last blog posts” had bloggers brainstorming on what they’d say to [...]

Whether you believe in reincarnation or not, when we are here, we are living our “one” life time. When we are young, we feel like we will live forever and that we are immortal. This feeling of infinity and immortality is strong during adolescence, when we seem to take all sorts of risks – some [...]

After a year of beginner comedy improv classes, our director gave me the green light to enroll in the intermediate comedy improv class. I began taking improv classes in 2006 to learn how to be “present”. At first I was so terrified, I had to psych myself up to even get to class… and sometimes [...]

Our society is a Seeking Society because we live in a Goal-Oriented Society. In the course of our social conditioning, we each have given “happiness” many brands, all of which prove false when closely examined. For example, some of us have branded happiness with concrete concepts like “an executive job title with corner office” or [...]