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Right Here! Right Now!Threshold to a New Identity - Right Here Right NowFeedback? Ideas? Send us a messageWhat if real change doesn’t begin with a resolution, but with a decision about who you are becoming?In this episode of Right Here, Right Now, we step beyond the familiar “New Year, New You” cycle and into something far more sustainable: identity-based change rooted in presence.Using insights from psychology, mindfulness, and James Clear’s Atomic Habits, this episode explores why so many resolutions fade quickly and how lasting transformation emerges instead from small, deliberate actions aligned with who we wish to be.Along th...
2026-02-0331 minRight Here! Right Now!Purpose & Meaning: Turning Mission Into RealityFeedback? Ideas? Send us a messageWhat if purpose isn’t something to chase, but something to remember?In this episode of Right Here, Right Now, we explore the inner journey from purpose to meaning to mission—and how presence is the bridge that turns intention into lived reality.Through reflections, neuroscience, philosophy, and lived experience, this episode invites listeners to slow down, listen inward, and reconnect with what truly matters.In this moment open up to an exploration of: The difference between purpose, meaning, a...
2026-01-2745 minRight Here! Right Now!Attention! Attention! Primed to shape our reality and change our lifeFeedback? Ideas? Send us a messageWhat if the way you experience the world isn’t determined by what happens to you — but by what your brain allows you to notice?In this Season 5 premiere of Right Here, Right Now, we explore the Reticular Activating System (RAS) — the powerful attentional filter in the brain that shapes what reaches conscious awareness and what fades into the background.By weaving together modern neuroscience, Viktor Frankl’s insight on the space between stimulus and response, and mindfulness practice, this episode reveals how attention is not just a mental...
2026-01-2050 minRight Here! Right Now![Bonus Replay] The Power of Self Love - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageJust in time for Valentine's ♥ Day, we are talking love! And we will be talking about a special and perhaps a not so popular type of love...a love that is vital to being able to live a life filled with an abundance of more fulfilling love...a love that we must start to be more comfortable with…a love that, we will come to learn, is critical to being able to love better and more deeply and more genuinely!The love that we will be talking about is the...
2025-02-0339 minRight Here! Right Now!Hope in Action: Building a Better Tomorrow, Today (Part 2)Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageHope part II we dive into the interplay between hope and purpose and how hope fuels our purpose; and purpose sustains hope. Purpose-driven hope helps us navigate life’s challenges and celebrate its triumphs. And we look to learn and have the capacity to embrace the journey over the destination:The joy of navigation and the lessons from detours.Avoiding rigid expectations to cultivate our resilience.We look to introduce practical strategies to cultivate hope reflecting on past victories and lessons learned an...
2025-01-2124 minRight Here! Right Now!Hope in Action: Building a Better Tomorrow, Today (Part 1)Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageToday we will discuss hope and reflect on pivotal questions, such as:Can envisioning a better future help us navigate the present?What tools can guide us toward a better tomorrow?How can hope and mindfulness coexist without compromising present-moment awareness?What actions can foster hope and lead to a more fulfilling future?The Nature of HopeHope will be presented as a belief that the future can be better, coupled with the capacity to make it so. Unlike optimism, which is a general positive...
2025-01-1424 minRight Here! Right Now!Mindfulness Intention: MomentsFeedback? Ideas? Send us a messageFrom the inspiration created by The Essence of Mindfulness quote that inspired the last 2 episodes comes a poem that allows us to embrace time and each of our moments in time.I hope this inspires you to be more mindful and present and aware of the capacity that our moments in time have for each of us...in the present moment awareness of our mindfulness practice.Click here to check out the poetry on our website!
2025-01-1007 minRight Here! Right Now!The Essence of Mindfulness - Part IIFeedback? Ideas? Send us a messageWelcome back to part 2 of our Essence of Mindfulness journey. Discover and unleash the power of the present moment awareness that we can bring to each of our moments in time. Be compassionate with your practices - all of them people!! This practice of Mindfulness is not easy but I urge you to listen and come to this moment with an openness and a spirit of curiosity to imagine what each mindfully lived moment can offer you.Be present...Be mindful... Be...
2025-01-0727 minRight Here! Right Now!The Essence of Mindfulness - Part IFeedback? Ideas? Send us a messageHappy New Year! First episode released this new year! A working and evolving and mindfully created and inspired thought of the essence of what the practice of mindfulness has to offer each and every one of us in each and every one of our moments in time!Be present...Be mindful...Be aware of how this moment impacts your very next moment...Right Here!Right Now!
2025-01-0123 minRight Here! Right Now!'Tis the Season - Merrily Mindful RHRN!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageA Holiday Rest - being more mindfully merry in our moments this time of year. A special holiday delight...a poem to help you slow down...in the moment of our holiday bustling...Be present...Be mindful...With the essence of our presence among all of our presents!!Right Here! Right Now!
2024-12-2207 minRight Here! Right Now!Mindful Reflection: "I am learning..." Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageThrough perhaps our greatest virtue of curiosity - a deep held passion for the desire to understand what we seem to not be able to comprehend or make sense of in the world we live in - comes this particular outline of lessons that I continue to learn. A continuous process of thinking and questioning and reflecting and more questioning as possibly one day deeper insight may come. Leading to wisdom…the act of putting it all together in some way to apply new information to new circumstances for a new wa...
2024-12-1706 minRight Here! Right Now![Replay] Mindfulness Intention - Healing as we goFeedback? Ideas? Send us a messageHealing is for the heroic spirit within each of us...Healing can be something we work on with a greater ability to smile and be immersed in some level of joy...“If you can recognize and accept your pain without running away from it, you will discover that although pain is there, joy can also be there at the same time.” Thich Nhat HanhCome on this journey of healing with me...Be Present ... Be Mindful ... and be open to the good parts of healing and...
2024-12-0915 minRight Here! Right Now!Mindful Moment Reflection Practice - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageWelcome back Right Here! Right Now! In today’s episode, we lead you through a powerful mindfulness mindset centered around reflection, presence, and resilience. This episode dives deep into how we can cultivate a mindset that transforms obstacles into opportunities for growth, drawing from Stoic philosophy, Buddhist teachings, and mindful practices.With the guidance of Marcus Aurelius’ famous words, “The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way,” we look to encourage our beautiful listeners to reflect on the challenges we face and how we can u...
2024-12-0328 minRight Here! Right Now!Presence of Your Absence - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageAnother bonus created for each and every one of my beautiful listeners!A special bonus episode featuring a mindfulness intention and creative poem I wrote inspired by the paradox of grief. It’s titled Presence of Your Absence—a heartfelt reflection on love and loss that I hope will provide comfort and connection or at the very least a moment of reflection of the love we can celebrate in the memories that we were blessed to share.Be present...Be mindful...Be compassionate to y...
2024-11-2809 minRight Here! Right Now![Replay] Grateful Mindset - Bonus Thanksgiving EpisodeFeedback? Ideas? Send us a messageListen today for the first time or listen again as we REPLAY one of my favorite episodes from season 3!Happy Thanksgiving people! Today, let's turn this seasonal practice of gratitude into a powerful daily and mindful practice. We often reflect on what we can be grateful for as we sit with family around the turkey and all it's trimmings...Reflect on how good it feels to be grateful as we pause and appreciate the good (and maybe the not so good) in our lives. Let today be the first day...
2024-11-2732 minRight Here! Right Now!Power of the Paradox (Part II) - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageUnlocking Life’s Paradoxes: Counterintuitive Insights for Emotional Growth and Mindful LivingListen to Part I:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unlocking-lifes-paradoxes-counterintuitive-insights/id1616393846?i=1000677440158Welcome back to Right Here! Right Now! I’m your host, Michael Scicchitano, and today we’re diving deep into a fascinating and transformative topic: paradoxes—those seemingly contradictory truths that challenge our instincts and reveal deeper wisdom upon closer reflection.In this episode, we’ll explore how embracing life’s paradoxes can profoundly shift how we approach...
2024-11-2622 minRight Here! Right Now!Meditation Poem - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageMeditation is not for everyone all the time...Maybe today you gently give it a try...Be present...Be mindful...RIght Here!Right Now!
2024-11-2208 minRight Here! Right Now!Unlocking Life’s Paradoxes: Counterintuitive Insights for Emotional Growth and Mindful Living Right Here! Right Now! (Part I)Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageUnlocking Life’s Paradoxes: Counterintuitive Insights for Emotional Growth and Mindful LivingWelcome back to Right Here, Right Now! I’m your host, Michael Scicchitano, and today we’re diving deep into a fascinating and transformative topic: paradoxes—those seemingly contradictory truths that challenge our instincts and reveal deeper wisdom upon closer reflection.In this episode, we’ll explore how embracing life’s paradoxes can profoundly shift how we approach challenges, manage emotional pain, and navigate the complexity of human experience. From accepting pain to finding stre...
2024-11-1935 minRight Here! Right Now!Still in the Storm - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageWelcome back people! This week's BONUS episode invites us all to find some stillness and some solace in our storms...This episode invites you to pause, breathe, and find your stillness. Whether you’re in the eye of the storm or just beginning to face one, remember that within each storm lies an opportunity to reflect, grow, and become stronger than before. Another creative poem for our beautiful community of followers.The Essence of Being "Still in the Storm": We delve into the poem's central theme, exploring ho...
2024-11-1609 minRight Here! Right Now!Solitude: Finding Peace in the Chaos - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageWelcome back people - Right Here! Right Now! The podcast that invites you to slow down, breathe, and rediscover peace amidst the chaos. Today, we're diving deep into the power of solitude and how it can help us heal in a world that often feels overwhelming.In this episode, we explore:Reframing Solitude: Solitude isn’t about physical isolation or escapism. It's about discovering a calm, grounded place within yourself. We break down common misconceptions and offer a more empowering view—one where solitude beco...
2024-11-1225 minRight Here! Right Now!I Don't Want to Grow Up - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageIn this heartfelt poetry episode, I am sharing a personal piece dedicated to my beloved boys—and to all of us who wish to hold on to the wonder and freedom of our youth. Through these words, I hope to reflect on the bittersweet journey of growing up and the desire to keep the magic of childhood alive, despite life’s inevitable pressures and responsibilities.Join me as I read aloud my original work in this beloved connection of words in this poem, I don't...
2024-11-0814 minRight Here! Right Now!Work Meets Play: The Art of Living with Joy and PurposeFeedback? Ideas? Send us a messageIn this episode, we dive into the transformative power of embracing both work and play as interconnected aspects of life, inspired by a timeless quote from Francois Auguste Rene Chateaubriand. The idea of fully immersing oneself in any endeavor—whether it’s labor or leisure—creates a space where the distinction between work and play fades, allowing us to approach life with a sense of wonder and creativity.We reflect on how this mindset has reshaped my approach to my own career in healthcare and how a spirit of playfu...
2024-11-0525 minRight Here! Right Now!Tech-no-logic Poetry - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageTech-no-logic: The Digital Dilemma of Our TimesIn this special episode of Right Here! Right Now! we go on a poetic journey through the digital landscape in my original work, Tech-no-logic. With evocative language and rhythmic flow, we explore the complex relationship we have with technology—how it captivates, entraps, and sometimes divides us. From the screens that demand our constant attention to the algorithms that shape our experience, this poem will hopefully inspire you to reflect on the social, emotional, and psychological impacts of our technological age....
2024-11-0114 minRight Here! Right Now!🎃 Groundless Fears🎃 [Replay] Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageAs we come upon this season of Halloween - where we look for things that might scare us in a fun and transient way - we will cozy up with the made up things that instill a fear within us - a fear that we battle with a little too often — perhaps needlessly fighting these fears. We will take excerpts from a Stoic philosopher - Seneca - who wrote many philosophical pieces - many in the form of letters. This letter is on “Groundless Fears” written to Lucilius...
2024-10-3116 minRight Here! Right Now!Interview with A.I. - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageOn the podcast today - Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) - we will try to begin to understand the capacity of this new technology and how it may offer some wonderful new ways of doing things - experiencing our world - and learning about many exciting aspects of its capability. Is it a little scary? Sure. But it is equally as exciting! Join us today as we explore and get into a conversation with an artificial intelligence entity in the form of Chat GPT. It was fascinating to have this "c...
2024-10-2826 minRight Here! Right Now!Heroically Super Poetry - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageSuperheros are born every day! Superheros are found in every way!Look around and look within...For that superhero inside...waiting to be discovered and unleashed...in just the right time...up up and away!Enjoy this poem presented as spoken word art set to a meditative musical sound that I hope will inspire you to be heroic AND to find the hero inside another...Be present...Be mindful...Be heroically super...R...
2024-10-2507 minRight Here! Right Now!Innovator's Mindset - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageIn this episode of Right Here, Right Now, we dive into the power of an innovator’s mindset and how we can cultivate creativity in our everyday lives. Drawing from my own experience preparing for a new role, we will explore what it means to truly innovate—both in process and in mindset. From asking the right questions to embodying key traits like open-mindedness, curiosity, and resilience, we break down how we can all become innovators, even outside the tech world. With mindfulness as a key practice, we show how tuning into...
2024-10-2229 minRight Here! Right Now!The Mindful Path to Inner Strength: From Resilience to AntifragilityFeedback? Ideas? Send us a messageWelcome back to Right Here, Right Now! I'm your host, Michael Scicchitano, and today we’re diving deep into how mindfulness can help us build resilience—and even make us antifragile—in the face of life’s inevitable challenges.In this episode, we explore:The Stoic Connection: How ancient wisdom from Stoics like Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Epictetus can guide our modern mindfulness practice.Defining Resilience: What does it mean to be resilient, and how can we cultivate this capacity to recover quickly and withstan...
2024-10-1520 minRight Here! Right Now!Season 4 Intro: Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageUnleashing Creativity and Mindfulness this season!!Season 4 intro: Right Here, Right Now, we are excited to share our vision for the new season. This time, it's all about unleashing creativity and using mindfulness to navigate life’s challenges. We will be reflecting on our personal journey, the importance of slowing down, and how creativity can transform difficult moments into opportunities for growth.Expect creative new content like poetry and bite-sized mindfulness episodes, designed to inspire and ground you. My passion and hope for this season of this po...
2024-10-1402 minRight Here! Right Now!RE-RELEASE The Impact of Humor - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageRE-RELEASE today on APRIL FOOL'S DAY! And why not, people!? Let's have some more fun with this topic! Today - Right Here! Right Now! We are talking Humor today people!! We will dive into the Science of humor as we review some great insights in the book "Humor, Seriously - Why Humor is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life (And how anyone can harness it. Even you.)” This book is by Dr. Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas: Dr. Aaker is the General Atlantic Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Bus...
2024-04-0120 minRight Here! Right Now!The Incredible Power of PotentialFeedback? Ideas? Send us a messageToday we discuss the incredible power of potential - or Arete! We review some Stoic principles and review Brian Johnson's new book Arete - Activating Your Highest Potential! And we ask that you consider your future self in all the actions you take - Right Here! Right Now!
2024-03-1221 minRight Here! Right Now!My Mindfulness Intention for YouFeedback? Ideas? Send us a messageBeing “somewhere else” you think you need to be doesn’t take you there - it takes you away from your present moments.
2024-03-1105 minRight Here! Right Now!Stillness - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageIs your world a little extra busy and loud and crazy these days? Have you ever felt that you needed some more silence or calm tranquility in your hectic days? Have you considered how we can employ a practice of stillness in our lives to catapult us into our next moments with more energy and a greater capacity for creative and effective work?We must understand that reaching a level of stillness that will serve us well will require many disciplined and active processes and an approach of self-awareness, mi...
2024-01-3040 minRight Here! Right Now!Mindfulness Intention - Healing as we goFeedback? Ideas? Send us a messageHealing is for the heroic spirit within each of us...Healing can be something we work on with a greater ability to smile and be immersed in some level of joy...“If you can recognize and accept your pain without running away from it, you will discover that although pain is there, joy can also be there at the same time.” Thich Nhat HanhCome on this journey of healing with me...Be Present ... Be Mindful ... and be open to the good parts of healing and...
2024-01-2413 minRight Here! Right Now!Learners are Yearners - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageOne of my favorite subjects on today's episode - LEARNING! Open yourself up to the things that you do not know! Open your hearts up to that feeling of vulnerability when you must admit that you do not know - for it is the only path to truly be able to learn - and from learning is growth - and an evolution that allows us to be our most authentic versions of ourselves!And let's ponder this quote from Epictetus:"It is impossible for a man to...
2024-01-0918 minRight Here! Right Now!Mindfulness Intention - Memento MoriFeedback? Ideas? Send us a messageToday on the show we come to terms and face the inescapable fact that we are mortal beings and will sometime in the future meet our demise. If you listened to our full episode on Memento Mori - this will go a little deeper as we meditate on our mortality with this mindfulness intention created for each of you! Can contemplating our mortality and seeing death as the imminent event that it is help us live life with more purpose and meaning and perhaps a calm sense of urgency to...
2024-01-0412 minRight Here! Right Now!Memento Mori - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageToday on the show we come to terms and face the inescapable fact that we are mortal beings and will sometime in the future meet our demise. Sounds morbid, but today we will harness this concept to help us live more fully in each of our mindfully present moments of our lives. We can and we will have a better appreciation for all of the experiences in our lives - the good and the not so good.Can contemplating our mortality and seeing death as the imminent event that it...
2024-01-0128 minRight Here! Right Now!Reflection - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageDo you know what is nicer than feeling good in the moment? Maybe reliving that moment of goodness? When we reflect on some of our moments, we may be replaying the emotions that served us well at a point in time that we can perhaps re-live in a moment of need. Today on Right Here! Right Now! we learn how we might be able to tap into the power of reflection in experiencing twice the impact of our positive moods and energetic and vibrant moments.Come on this journey my...
2023-12-1919 minRight Here! Right Now!Mindfulness In Motion - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageToday, we are reminded of what mindfulness means to each of us - to each of our moments in life. We must be compassionate and kind to ourselves knowing that we will need to constantly put ourselves back on track. I hope to invigorate a sense of how powerful and impactful the practice of mindfulness can be for each of us. We go over some of the science behind mindfulness and we attempt to see the benefits of mindfulness in motion - meaning, how we can take the practice of...
2023-11-2829 minRight Here! Right Now!Grateful Mindset - Bonus Thanksgiving EpisodeFeedback? Ideas? Send us a messageHappy Thanksgiving people! Today, let's turn this seasonal practice of gratitude into a powerful daily and mindful practice. We often reflect on what we can be grateful for as we sit with family around the turkey and all it's trimmings...Reflect on how good it feels to be grateful as we pause and appreciate the good (and maybe the not so good) in our lives. Let today be the first day of a gratitude practice and watch your well being and your overall health and wellness shift on your path to bei...
2023-11-2332 minRight Here! Right Now!The Man in the Arena - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a message"The Man in the Arena" speech by Theodore Roosevelt celebrates the value of action, resilience, and courage. It encourages individuals to step into the arena of life, take risks, and not be deterred by critics. It has become an enduring source of motivation and inspiration for people pursuing their goals and facing life's challenges. The Man in the Arena - on today's episode we will examine these profoundly moving words that calls us to action by daring greatly in all that we do!Be present and be mindful!
2023-11-2112 minRight Here! Right Now!Mindfulness Intention - Amor FatiFeedback? Ideas? Send us a messageToday’s mindfulness intention builds upon the work from one of our more popular episodes…today we reflect and get a little closer to the concept of Amor Fati - The Love of your Fate. This concept has become very powerful and quite meaningful for me - a practice and mindset we learned from from the Stoics - I have studied it and reflected upon this wisdom in my own life - especially most recently.Amor Fati encourages us to view adversity as a teacher. We must always ask ourse...
2023-11-1511 minRight Here! Right Now!Mindful Moment - Open HeartsFeedback? Ideas? Send us a messageOne of the mantras or values or virtues that I often share here is the capacity to open our minds and our hearts to be better positioned to learn and grow and evolve into the best version of ourselves. This practice can be a tremendous help in getting in the habit of having a better outlook on how we can handle life’s challenges. Today we will hear from Pema Chodron and how we can learn how to be more open to what life serves us and how we can approach life...
2023-07-1907 minRight Here! Right Now!Mindful Moment - We Make It Look EasyFeedback? Ideas? Send us a messageAnd today we are going to admire the incredible feats that we - OURSELVES - accomplish. Getting the seemingly impossible done. And the inspiration for today’s mindful moment is another poem. This poem - which I have read a bunch of times - is a succinct and precise and warm description of so many of the days that we live - so many of the days we see others are entrenched in…The poem is from the book: Self Love Poetry for Thinkers and Feelers, by Melody Godfred The Self Love P...
2023-07-1413 minRight Here! Right Now!Mindful Moment - Amor FatiFeedback? Ideas? Send us a messageAmor Fati is the subject of today’s mindful moment . Amor fati is translated to "Love of one’s Fate". This is not an easy concept to embrace. Especially through the difficult and challenging times and the suffering and pain we have all endured…let’s get curious in this mindful moment to see what we can learn to help us on our way to being better people - people who can respond and be better with each of our challenges - every day! The Love of your fate - To LOVE every...
2023-07-0716 minRight Here! Right Now!Mindful Moment - What is NOW?Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageThis week's Mindful Moment is designed to slow us all down and gives us a greater capacity to ask ourselves "what is now" as opposed to "what's next". This practice helps to ground us and keeps us present in our moments. It takes discipline and work and the awareness that I hope today's Mindful Moment helps to cultivate. Be present and be mindful! Right Here! Right Now!Please take a moment to share with those you care for! Thank you!!
2023-06-3011 minRight Here! Right Now!Mindful Moment - Kindness EnduresFeedback? Ideas? Send us a messageWelcome to Right Here! Right Now! We are so excited to offerthe premiere eipsode in the new special series “Mindful Moments”! We hope you enjoy and share these mindful moments as I look to take something that inspires me to reflect on - write about - think about - and most importantly - to share with each of you. So each of you, please share with someone that you think might enjoy a moment of being mindful - a moment where we can be still - a moment that may ch...
2023-06-2409 minRight Here! Right Now!Limitless - The Power of Learning How to Learn - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageToday's episode is all about how our capacity to learn can be unleashed if we focus on the best methods we can employ to learn HOW to learn. We will take a quick look at Jim Kwik's masterpiece Limitless. We discuss the distractions that pull us away from the important details of life's path to learning. He calls these Supervillains of Learning. We discuss and help to demystify some of the lies we all tell ourselves about learning. Essentially - today we try to break down barriers to...
2023-06-0236 minRight Here! Right Now!Mindfulness Intention - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageBeing “somewhere else” you think you need to be doesn’t take you there - it takes you away from your present moments.Be Present and Be Mindful!Right Here!Right Now!
2023-04-2905 minRight Here! Right Now!Mindfulness Intention on Discipline - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageWe bring to you another Mindfulness Intention this episode of Right Here! Right Now! This intention is on discipline following last week's episode on unleashing our discipline! Discipline requires so much of our energy and the virtues that we must employ - but it also gives so much back to us! Be mindful and be present and be open to the journey of a life with more capacity for being disciplined!Right Here! Right Now!
2023-03-3010 minRight Here! Right Now!Episode One - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageWhere it all began! We celebrate our one year anniversary with our first episode! Be present and Be mindful! Right Here! Right Now!
2023-03-2711 minRight Here! Right Now!Unleashing our DISCIPLINE - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageToday's episode is packed with so much information and insight on discipline and some of the virtues that can help us all lead a more disciplined life. We will take some wonderful information from the great author and podcast host Ryan Holiday. We will learn about discipline from his book Discipline is Destiny and we will also learn about the ancient philosophical school of Stoicism. No spoiler here but this is what I want to get to the heart of in today's episode as we think aabout what discipline m...
2023-03-2441 minRight Here! Right Now!Autobiography of a Restless Mind - Right Here! RIght Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageI am excited to share with you a different kind of episode that will hopefully get you all thinking and reflecting on some of the things that might serve us well to think and reflect on. The format is a bit different. I will be reading quotes from a modern day philosopher - he is not a well known individual but I assure you that your lives have been impacted by the industry he revolutionized - he is Dee Hock - founder of Visa [the credit card company] and his book “Au...
2023-02-2423 minRight Here! Right Now!Mindfulness Intention - Self LoveFeedback? Ideas? Send us a messageThis Mindfulness Intention of Self Love is a follow up to our powerful episode on The Power of Self Love.Let this intention find you with an open mind and an open heart during this season of love. Let this intention help you take notice of how harsh we might be on ourselves. Let this intention provide you with some mindful moments that allow you to be as compassionate to yourself as you are to others.Let these words be a guiding principle in the path to...
2023-02-1811 minRight Here! Right Now!The Power of Self Love - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageJust in time for Valentine's ♥ Day, we are talking love! And we will be talking about a special and perhaps a not so popular type of love...a love that is vital to being able to live a life filled with an abundance of more fulfilling love...a love that we must start to be more comfortable with…a love that, we will come to learn, is critical to being able to love better and more deeply and more genuinely!The love that we will be talking about is the...
2023-02-1439 minRight Here! Right Now!BONUS Sleep Quick Hit - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageThis is the bonus episode following up the Power of Sleep episode from this week. There are some things you can do - Right Here! Right Now! - to help give you a better opportunity for sleep - TONIGHT!!
2023-02-1212 minRight Here! Right Now!The Power of Sleep - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageWake up people!! Next up on Right Here!Right Now! - we will be talking sleep!! And we’ll discover why it is likely the most important and vastly neglected function of our species - we will learn how and why getting better sleep has the potential to improve not only your heart health, immune system functioning, brain health, but also your creativity, problem solving, decision-making, learning, memory, mental health, emotional well-being, and even your life span. We will take many facts and insights from Matthew Walker’s book “Why We Sleep...
2023-02-0625 minRight Here! Right Now!Anxiety's Purpose - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageToday we look to understand anxiety and what purpose it can serve. It is so often seen as a flurry of negative emotions and we then get into a cycle of deeper and more difficult thoughts on how things will turn out or what things we expect to turn out badly. But it is possible to employ the anxiety if we better understand what purpose it can serve us. Please reach out to someone if you are struggling with mental health issues and are having trouble coping. Reach out t...
2023-01-2717 minRight Here! Right Now!Resilience and the Power of Mindfulness - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageMindfulness allows us to better notice our challenges and the responses and the curiosity allows us to better understand what we are experiencing – connecting the awareness with the impact of our awareness is a wonderful state to be in for a cycle to be formed so that we can employ this newly discovered and cultivated strength in all of our moments in life. And there is growing research showing that when you train your brain to be mindful, you’re actually remodeling the physical structure of your brain!
2022-12-1716 minRight Here! Right Now!More Beautiful Than Before - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageToday we will begin to learn and understand and PRACTICE how experiencing our pain and suffering may allow us to come through some difficult challenges and loss – with a more healthy approach that has the propensity to leave us even better than we were before. We will review Rabbi Steve Leder's beautiful book "More Beautiful Than Before - How Suffering Transforms Us". “The lessons pain comes to teach us are the tools that can repair and save our very lives and souls.” Link to TED Talk by Sta...
2022-12-0922 minRight Here! Right Now!Mindfulness Intention - Positive ReflectionsFeedback? Ideas? Send us a messageWhen was the last time - at any point in your day that you stopped to look for something that created some joy - some amount of pleasure - a well deserved but overlooked or hastened opportunity to smile? A moment that in reflection allows you to propel yourself to your next moment - with more confidence and belief that this moment will have something good to offer you! But we must have our head up and look for it. Maybe that moment is right here right now? Let t...
2022-11-1812 minRight Here! Right Now!Mindfulness Intention - Embracing PainFeedback? Ideas? Send us a messageToday, we are going to talk about how we can approach the inevitable pain that may lead to suffering and how we can all embrace our pain - understand its utility even - come to know its faculty in our lives. It's in the noticing and awareness of our pain that we breed the compassion to help - help ourselves and help others - and come out of it better off. Music: Adagio for Strings - Composer Samuel BarberRHRN Website: https://right-here-right-now.constantcontactsites.com/
2022-11-0419 minRight Here! Right Now!🎃 Groundless Fears 🎃 Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageAs we come upon this season of Halloween - where we look for things that might scare us in a fun and transient way - we will cozy up with the made up things that instill a fear within us - a fear that we battle with a little too often — perhaps needlessly fighting these fears. We will take excerpts from a Stoic philosopher - Seneca - who wrote many philosophical pieces - many in the form of letters. This letter is on “Groundless Fears” written to Lucilius:...
2022-10-2818 minRight Here! Right Now!Mindfulness Intention - LiberationFeedback? Ideas? Send us a messageToday's Mindfulness Intention is about liberation - setting ourselves free - specifically unleashing the parts of us that may be hidden by our strife or disharmony - and those parts of us that are already embedded within us - parts of us that we need to unchain and unearth - so that our best selves can shine - to experience the good and overcome the not so good for the service of ourselves - for the service of others. Taking a mindful approach to looking deeply within ourselves - this will...
2022-10-2109 minRight Here! Right Now!Right Here! Right Now! - Assume Positive IntentFeedback? Ideas? Send us a messageToday, we are going to talk about how we can approach life maybe a bit differently by taking a better perspective on how we interact and connect and communicate with others. We must attempt to assume the best intentions of all those we encounter! It will, at first, seem daunting a task - possibly a bit difficult to even imagine - but of course - and - as always - I ask that you all come on this journey with an open mind and open heart - with a passionate curiosity. So...
2022-10-1425 minRight Here! Right Now!Mindfulness Intention - Who we areFeedback? Ideas? Send us a messageThis Mindfulness Intention will help us realize who we are - how the world sees us and how this is jaded by how we see others’ perception of ourselves - through self awareness and an awareness of what the world sees in us - we can be more mindful of who we CAN BE. Be present and be mindful!https://right-here-right-now.constantcontactsites.com/Music Credit:Intro music:STKA_Path To Chaos Strngs from the album STKA-Rock-Orchestral 1 by Strike Audio [Curtis Marolt, Wi...
2022-10-0711 minRight Here! Right Now!Right Here! Right Now! - MindsetFeedback? Ideas? Send us a messageWhat a great way to begin S2 of Right Here! Right Now! with the concept of MINDSET! We’ve all heard the notion that 'we can do anything we put our minds to'; but maybe there’s more to it than that? Maybe having the right mindset - specifically in how we deal with adversity or failure - is how we must be in the frame of mind to be open to learning from the failure and being a bit more deliberate about the work and effort we put in to what...
2022-09-3020 minRight Here! Right Now!Right Here! Right Now! - 7 Rules of LifeFeedback? Ideas? Send us a message7 Rules of Life - Reminders of how to better navigate our world - our emotions - and of course tie it into how we can be more mindful and present in all of our moments of life.https://right-here-right-now.constantcontactsites.com/ Music Credit:Intro music:STKA_Path To Chaos Strngs from the album STKA-Rock-Orchestral 1 by Strike Audio [Curtis Marolt, William Jay Stein, Michael A. Rosen] by way of PodcastMusic.com ...
2022-09-2316 minRight Here! Right Now!Season 2 Teaser - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageHere's what you can look forward to - coming up soon - Season 2 of Right Here! Right Now! From the teachings of the Stoics, an American Buddhist nun, psychologists, business leaders, and with quotes from all around the world from all time - get ready for some learning and growth in a mindfully present manner on Right Here! Right Now!
2022-09-1007 minRight Here! Right Now!Our Mind's Continuum of Mindfulness - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageHere it is - The final episode of Season 1 of Right Here! Right Now! I am so excited and honored to have been able to share this practice and various insights of mindfulness with each of you.Creating and contemplating this final episode has helped me grapple with the "Mindfulness Mindset" and how we can see how it can fit into our lives in a more practical way without getting too caught up in the constraints it may put on us - especially if we put too much pressure...
2022-06-2421 minRight Here! Right Now!The Hidden Power of Nostalgia - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageHow can looking back on fondly held memories help in being more mindfully present? How does nostalgia help to experience today’s moments more fully? Let’s discover these questions and ask many more - Right Here! Right Now!
2022-06-0620 minRight Here! Right Now!Learner's Mindset - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageAnd so today as promised, we will take a deeper dive into the masterpiece - “Think Again - The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know” by the insightful thought leader Adam Grant. Today’s principles really lay the foundation of how our minds will tackle with new information - new thoughts - opposing ideas even. We will talk a bit about how our hearts play into the learning and unlearning processes. We will outline what Adam presents as our "Re-Thinking Cycle" (Good) and our "Overconfidence Cycle" (Not...
2022-05-2928 minRight Here! Right Now!Right Here! Right Now! - Quick Hit - ConnectionFeedback? Ideas? Send us a messageBe mindful and be present in your connection to others in this world - Right Here! Right Now!
2022-05-2806 minRight Here! Right Now!Unlearning to Learn - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageIf you are not familiar with Adam Grant - YOU’RE WELCOME here people! Adam Grant - is such an incredible author and an insightful organizational psychologist. He is a researcher and he is the ultimate writer and scholar in the most profound ideas that challenge how we think and look upon the world we live in. My very first encounter with Adam Grant was when he was a guest on Jay Shetty’s podcast “On Purpose” - episode from February 2021 (link below): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-purpose-w...
2022-05-2214 minRight Here! Right Now!Intention of Empathy - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageMy Intention of Empathy for You - Right Here! Right Now! Come on this short journey of how we can be better at understanding the feelings and emotions of those closest to us!
2022-05-1807 minRight Here! Right Now!Unleash Your Creativity - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageIt's creativity today people!! I want to share a few quotes that I came across at very poignant times over the last few weeks… and these insights will lead us into a nice reflection on how being more mindfully present might allow our creative spirits to shine!! The creative spirit that we all possess and where some of us are more natural than others in expressing our creative spirits… hopefully today’s discussion will help you to be more mindful of your innovative thoughts and release the imaginative spirits within...
2022-05-1423 minRight Here! Right Now!Culture of Help - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageWe are going to do a deep dive on the following passage from "365 Days of Kindness" from BroadStreet Publishing - a spiritual daily read book with some amazing insights on how to spread kindness. “Encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.” from Thessalonians“There are dependent people and there are independent people. In our culture, we think that independence is the better way to be…this whole mindset leaves us thinking that we should first try to do things by ourselves before asking fo...
2022-05-0921 minRight Here! Right Now!My Mindfulness Intention for YouFeedback? Ideas? Send us a messageMy intention for you - be present and be mindful - Right Here! Right Now!
2022-05-0404 minRight Here! Right Now!Curiosity and Mindfulness - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageToday we are reviewing Cory Muscara's amazing book: "Stop Missing Your LIfe"! This was an amazing story on how we can use very practical information to be better humans and more mindfully present and connected to our moments. Cory has an incredible definition of PRESENCE - “[Presence] is more than simply being aware of the moment; it’s bringing our full selves into the moment, and the fullness of the moment to ourselves.” Today we dive into his book and more specifically, how being curious can help us all be more...
2022-05-0128 minRight Here! Right Now!The Power of Possibility - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageIt’s the POWER OF POSSIBILITY TODAY PEOPLE!! The power of possibility should inspire all of us to continue to work on being better people! I recently came across a beautiful poem in this amazing book by Courtney Peppernell. The book is called “Watering the Soul” and is full of inspirational poems and passages from the heart of a struggling poet. “The possibility of becoming the breath of fresh air someone needs in their day.”Everything Courtney Peppernell:https://www.peppernell.com/ Like, Share, and comment with...
2022-04-2714 minRight Here! Right Now!The Impact of Humor - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageWe are talking Humor today people!! We will dive into the Science of humor as we review some great insights in the book "Humor, Seriously - Why Humor is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life (And how anyone can harness it. Even you.)” This book is by Dr. Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas: Dr. Aaker is the General Atlantic Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business; Naomi is a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and an executive coach. We will explore the benefits of hu...
2022-04-2420 minRight Here! Right Now!Gift of Life - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageBe present - Be mindful - Be generous - Right Here! Right Now!Is there any greater gift than the gift of life? April is National Donate Life Month. The Donate Life website informs us that by registering to be an organ donor - “You can save up to 8 lives and heal the lives of more than 75 people. Your registration serves as a symbol of hope to patients waiting, and sharing it with your family lets them know your decision.” Register here to be an organ donor: https...
2022-04-2209 minRight Here! Right Now!New Beginnings - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a message“Every moment is an opportunity for a fresh start. Yes, one could argue that everything that has preceded this moment has created who you are and how you think. AND you still have the capacity to notice the momentum of your life pushing you in a certain direction, be still, and choose a new response. As you wind down the day, see if you can view tomorrow as the beginning of the rest of your life.” This is a message from Cory Muscara and on today's episode we will be talking New...
2022-04-1722 minRight Here! Right Now!Right Here! Right Now! - Quick Hit Quote - Song in Your HeartFeedback? Ideas? Send us a messageBe present and be mindful people!! Right Here! Right Now!“People don’t realize how important it is to wake up every morning with a song in your heart.” ~Jiddu Krishnamurti But you must be looking for it – you must have your head up – you must be present in the moments of life – RIGHT HERE! RIGHT NOW! Remind yourself that we cannot experience our lives without transforming our minds into this “being there” mindset! Link to "Nothing is worth more than this day" book: https://www.workman.com/pr...
2022-04-1310 minRight Here! Right Now!Scarcity: Navigating New Emotions - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageWe have, likely for the first time in most of our lives, experienced the uncertain feeling of not knowing if we might be able to get our hands (or our hearts) on something that we so badly needed. Our world has changed – AND we have changed; but I am not sure that we have accepted these two realities or that we even know how these changes would align into a new way of experiencing the world and responding emotionally to a 'new world' we lived in. If we are not used to...
2022-04-1022 minRight Here! Right Now!Right Here! Right Now! - Quick Hit Quote - GenerosityFeedback? Ideas? Send us a messageBe present - Be mindful People - Right Here! Right Now!“The good we do lives on in other people, in other places, in other times. Generosity lives on forever.” Wow!! This week’s quick hit quote comes from an amazing little book that just came out - The Generosity Habit by Matthew Kelly. This quote inspires me to be more generous and this quote made me think that the feelings evoked by the generosity - the givers and receivers - all of us experience the emotional contagi...
2022-04-0907 minRight Here! Right Now!The Science of Mindfulness - Right Here! Right Now!Feedback? Ideas? Send us a messageToday we are talking about Mindfulness and the science that lets us know how it works and how we can understand it better so that it may work better for us. I will be sharing what I learned from Dr. Amishi Jha's new book - “Peak Mind - Find Your Focus - Own Your Attention - Invest 12 Minutes a Day”. Amishi says in her book that “Mindfulness is the capacity to be PRESENT: to take in an experience without elaboration, judgment, or reactivity allowing us to absorb, learn and...
2022-04-0315 minRight Here! Right Now!Right Here! Right Now! - Quick Hit Quote - BooksFeedback? Ideas? Send us a messageThis week's Quick Hit Quote comes to us from Marcus Tullius Cicero (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero), a roman statesmen. This is one of my favorite quotes about the passion of the reader: "A room without books is like a body without a soul." Today's message is about how the reader (and learner) in you can be drawn out at the right time with the right book - with no pressure on yourself about reading. Find the pleasure in the reading and it may become a passion and a path...
2022-04-0205 minRight Here! Right Now!Right Here! Right Now! - IntroFeedback? Ideas? Send us a messageWendell Philips said “What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.” Learning! Not losing! Taking away lessons!! Not being conquered!! This philosophy centers on CURIOSITY - it is not about keeping score or comparison or the tension that may come from these mindsets. As we come upon the season of Spring, recognize in this philosophy that we have the capacity - even the responsibility - to begin again - and your new beginning starts RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW.
2022-03-2710 min
Sage Political Science & International RelationsState and Local Government Review Roundtable: The 'Shifting Sands' of American IGR in an Era of Flux and Uncertainty: What's Happening and What to ExpectIn case you missed it: in this panel discussion at ASPA 2017, moderated by John Kincaid and introduced by SLGR Editor Michael J. Scicchitano, J. Edwin Benton, Timothy J. Conlan, Justin Marlowe, and Michael Pagano discuss their work prior to the special issue of SLGR, The "Shifting" Sands of American IGR in an Era of Flux and Uncertainty: What's Happening and What to Expect.
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