Entries by Andy Grant

To Be More or Not To Be More

With all due apologies to Shakespeare, that is the real question. At least it is for me. I already am a being. I already am being, so nothing to question there. But, am I ready and willing to be more? One of my daily rituals is asking what my purpose is. This morning I received […]

Emotions and Vacations

Everybody loves vacations, right? Apparently not, since 47% of Americans didn’t take all of their vacation time in 2017 and 21% left more than five available vacation days up for grabs. My wife and I recently returned home for a two week trip to the Middle East, spending one week in Israel and the next […]

My Christmas Ode to Wayne Dyer

On a recent episode of Real Men Feel, I was talking with Buddy Carchide about social experiments and acts of kindness. I shared a story about Wayne Dyer giving away cash to homeless people on his birthday and said that was always something I wanted to do. It struck me that I’d been saying I […]

A Dip into Isolation

Floating to nowhere Ever since I saw the movie Altered States as a kid, I’ve wanted to experience a sensory deprivation or isolation tank. It is sort of a private hot tub of heavily salted water so that you float and it shuts out all light and sound. Things didn’t turn out so great for William Hurt in […]

How Are You? Really.

How many times in a regular week does someone ask, ‘How are you?’ Depending on the size of your family, your circle of friends as well where, and if, you work, the answer could be a couple of times to hundreds. ‘How are you,’ is a pretty standard greeting in the United States. More accurately, […]