Journaling, puzzles, and hunting shark teeth gave me everything the meditation books promised. Then something surprising happened when I sat back down to try the real thing.

For readers who know me only from my novel and other writing, there’s another side of my life: I run an information technology firm that helps multibillion-dollar organizations create better software.

If you’ve ever fought with a website that wouldn’t work or a mobile app that made you want to hurl your phone across the

How do you feel when you walk outside to a bright blue sky? Does it feel good? It does to me.

What if the day is dark, with rainclouds hanging low? Different feeling, right? I like it sometimes if…

If there is one activity that has vastly improved my life in multiple ways, it’s journaling. I’ve mentioned this to numerous people who’ve asked me for…

I sometimes envy people who travel the world with everything they own slung over their shoulders in a backpack. How carefree must it be to…

Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.

My friend’s dad used to say that often. It sounds old-fashioned in this day and age. Most people used to…

Hundreds of years ago, remote communication on earth didn’t extend beyond smoke signals, drums in the night, or the written and spoken word traveling vast distances by ship, horse, or the lonely runner. If you had lived…

When I started training for my pilot license, I was amazed at how I felt after a flight ended. If I ever lifted off from...

“Stop staring at the instrument panel,” my flight instructor said, finger pointing to the blue stretch of sky beyond the windshield. “Everything that makes flying worth it is...

In my last post, I promised ideas to help you flow with life versus forcing it. If you’ve been trying to force life to...

Continued from Life Force:

There must be an easier way.

Those words sifted through my mind five years ago as I...

I’ve penned Lessons from the Cockpit for over four years and in all those posts I don’t believe I’ve written one as important as this. If I’ve cultivated any major life philosophy over the years, this is it…

Our upstairs air conditioner stopped working one Friday evening in late May. I almost called the repair guy but held off. Waiting until Monday meant…

Life on the ground is often rigid. We spend the better part of our days living between the lines, whether it’s the boundaries of a house or office, the narrow edges of a sidewalk, or the slightly wider lines of a…

Whenever I lift my eyes toward the sky, my mood improves. I noticed this a long time ago and always assumed my fondness of the sky triggered it, my inner kid spellbound by…

Susan and I spent a recent Saturday cleaning out a few closets in dire need of organizing. One of the closets was in the…

I have a secret to share: I’ve been leading a double life. For many readers of this blog, I’m Christopher Laney, writer. But there’s another side to me…

I'm pleased to announce my guest post on Katherine Jenkin's blog, "Lessons from the Monk I Married." Katherine spent every single day of 2010 blogging about 365 lessons she had learned or…

If you suddenly found yourself with enough money so you no longer had to work, what would you do with your time? When I ask that question to a variety of people, most answers are not…

There is a person you are meant to be. You know this because you’ve dreamed of it. Perhaps that person is a painter or a photographer. Maybe it’s an entrepreneur or a scientist. But whatever the goal, many of us have…