
2025: The Year of Nine - A Journey Home to the Self
Led Zeppelin’s iconic "Stairway to Heaven" transcends time as a masterpiece of spiritual exploration and awakening, offering profound reflections as we step into the transformative energy of 2025. Its rich symbolism and poetic narrative resonate deeply with the themes of a Nine Year—a time of culmination, spiritual introspection, and renewal.

Breaking Patterns: How Awareness Leads to Lasting Transformation
A few weeks ago, I jammed my toenail. It turned black and eventually fell off. But when it did, I discovered something surprising—a completely new, healthy nail was already growing underneath.
For years, ever since breaking this toe in 2003, I had accepted the strange, misshapen nail as “normal.” Suddenly, after all this time, it was gone—replaced by wholeness.
This small experience reminded me how often we accept unhealthy patterns or imperfections in ourselves, not because they serve us, but because we’ve convinced ourselves there’s nothing we can do. We tell ourselves, “This is just how it is.”
But just like that new toenail, transformation is always possible.

The Life Pie: Balancing Your Time Through Self-Inquiry, Six Sigma, and Coaching
Take a moment. Draw a circle on a blank sheet of paper. This circle represents 100% of your time—all the hours you spend awake and asleep. Inside this circle lives your entire life: work, relationships, family, health, spirituality, and rest.
Now pause and contemplate: What compartments exist in your life, and how much time do you devote to each?

The Power of Self-Inquiry: A Path to Awareness and Transformation
Meditation and journaling often bring peace, clarity, and unexpected answers to life’s challenges. Yet there is another practice—more demanding, but deeply transformative—known as self-inquiry. While meditation soothes the mind and contemplation nurtures insight, self-inquiry asks us to turn inward with courage, confronting the uncomfortable patterns and emotions that shape our lives.