Bentlily – The Art of Noticing your Life

Posted by on Jul 19, 2012 in Blog, Inspiration, Mindfulness | 0 comments Recently, I discovered Samantha Reynolds’ website, Bentlily.com. In lieu of New Year’s Resolutions, Samantha decided to choose a theme for 2011: “be present”. To do this, she pledged to write one poem a day, and Bentlily was born. 18 months later, it’s still going. As Samantha explains on her website: “What was meant to be a one-year experiment has threaded...
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12 Steps to Becoming More Curious (and some stuff about cats)

Posted by on May 2, 2010 in Authentic Living, Authentic Relationships, Blog | 0 comments In this great article by Dr Todd Kashdan, he gives several exercises and tips to help readers improve their curiosity levels. There’s also a nifty little explanation of how curiosity is beneficial to different aspects of our lives. But why? Didn’t we always hear that curiosity killed the cat? And that’s got to mean that curiosity’s pretty bad, right, because anyone who...
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