One of the most common problems among people I work with and coach is the feeling of always being busy.And then it becomes a rationalization: I can’t honor my commitments because I’m too busy! I can’t be with my family or friends because I’m too busy. I can’t work out, meditate, shut down at night to get to sleep, or make time for solitude and disc…

Our lives are spent building up to more important moments, later, the moments when we’ll be happy. But when those moments come, we’re not happier. In fact, we’re already looking ahead.Av Leo Babauta and Chris Calabro

For the most part, everything is normal. We’re managing. On good days, things go pretty well. On bad days, frustration and stress get to us. But what if we could shift everything in a magical way?Av Leo Babauta and Chris Calabro

It happens to all of us: we don’t get done what we hoped to get done, then we feel stressed or guilty about it. It’s time to let that go, because it’s not helping us. We can build resiliency around this, with a little mental training. And it will help us in magical ways. Think about whether you’ve done any of these things....…

Seattle Sin Bin: Art Thiel talks future and past Seattle hockey.Av Sonics Rising Radio

Sonics broadcasting legend Kevin Calabro comes by to talk NBA, as well as the future of the NBA and NHL in Seattle.Av Sonics Rising Radio

When I write these articles, they’re as much a reminder to myself about what I’ve found to work as they are a reminder to all of you. I’ve found them to work, but that doesn’t mean I always remember to practice them. It doesn’t mean I’m perfect, by any means.Av Leo Babauta and Chris Calabro

Chris Daniels, Brian Robinson, and John Barr join us to discuss the NHL decision to allow Seattle to apply for expansion and conduct a ticket drive.Av Sonics Rising Radio

I used to think, as many people do, that if we’re unhappy with ourselves, we’ll be driven to get better. And if we were all of a sudden content with ourselves, we’d stop doing anything. I no longer believe this.Av Leo Babauta and Chris Calabro

Geoff Baker joins us to talk about the KeyArena and Sodo arena plans.Av Sonics Rising Radio

We are joined by Brian Surratt, the head of Seattle's Office of Economic Development, to answer hard questions from fans about the arena process. Sonics Rising founder Brian Robinson also joins inAv Sonics Rising Radio

Brian Robinson, John Barr, and Robert Cardona answer hard arena questioAv Sonics Rising Radio

The next time you experience frustration, just notice it. Just be mindful that you’re unhappy with something or someone, that you’re feeling frustration in your body somehow. Now notice what it is in this moment that you wish were different. What is missing from this moment that is frustrating you? Frustration stems from what you don’t have.…

KING5 reporter Chris Daniels joins us to discuss the Seattle arena issue.Av Sonics Rising Radio

As you sit here reading these words, you are breathing … stop for a moment and notice this breath. You could control the breath, and make it behave as you like … or you can simply let yourself breathe. There is peace in just letting your body breathe, without having to do anything about it.Av Leo Babauta and Chris Calabro

The question I’ve been asking myself lately, before I do anything, is a deceptively simple one: “What’s the most loving thing you can do in this situation?“Av Leo Babauta and Chris Calabro

When I remember to do this — and I very, very often don’t — it lifts the difficulty that I’ve been facing internally and shift my focus to understanding and empathizing with other people, seeing how I can give them compassion.Av Leo Babauta and Chris Calabro

Chris Daniels talks Chris Hansen land aquisitionAv Sonics Rising Radio

If you’re on Facebook looking at your friends’ food pictures or vacation photos, that will shape your reality. If you’re on porn sites, that’s what your reality is. If you follow people on Twitter who complain all the time, that affects your life in a major way.Av Leo Babauta and Chris Calabro

There’s a part of today’s consumerist world that drives us to want more, buy more, act on our impulses, hoard, spend to solve our problems, create comfort through shopping, seek thrills through travel, do more, be more. What would happen if we broke from our addiction to wanting and buying more?Av Leo Babauta and Chris Calabro

You can read entire books on productivity, dozens of blog posts, and implement half a dozen different productivity systems. But at the end of the day, you’d have gotten nothing important done. The truth is, productivity is fairly simple, in theory.Av Leo Babauta and Chris Calabro

We think we need to improve ourselves and our current situation, because we’re dissatisfied (at least a little bit) with how things are. So we strive for change — exercise more, eat better, read more, be more mindful, do more meaningful work, be more disciplined. And yet, we struggle with change. Why is that?…

When we feel difficult emotions in real life, we can stop believing in the story, and start to see the reality of what’s happening: there’s just physical objects around us, moving. There are atoms and molecules, living organisms, people who can talk and create.Av Leo Babauta and Chris Calabro

We feel the moment isn’t enough unless we talk about it, share it, somehow solidify it. The moment is ephemeral, and we want solidity and permanence. This kind of groundlessness can scare us.Av Leo Babauta and Chris Calabro

Pretty much all of us experience frustration on a daily (or even hourly) basis. We get frustrated by other people, by ourselves, by technology, by work situations, by small crises that come up all the time. How can we calm ourselves and let go of our frustrations, so we’re not so irritated and angry throughout the day?…

In our season finale, we discuss the Seattle City Council transportation committee's approval of street vacation. And Councilwoman Bagshaw's faithful reading of the Port of Seattle talking points in voting no.Av Sonics Rising Radio

Think about how busy our lives have become. Think about how distracted we’ve become. Think about how many things needlessly pull on our attention, our time, our money, our sanity. The point isn’t to opt out of life. It’s to see that life is much more than we dare to believe it can be.Av Leo Babauta and Chris Calabro

We talk Seattle Arena and Tri-City AmericansAv Sonics Rising Radio

The hosts talk about the status of SoDo arena and Sam Hinchee recaps the season for the Tri-City Americans.Av Sonics Rising Radio

The basic nature of life is that it is everchanging, uncontrollable. When we think we have stability in life, something comes up to remind us that no, we don’t. There is no stability, no matter how much we’d like it. And this kinda freaks us out.Av Leo Babauta and Chris Calabro

We discuss NHL expansion with the guys from the Vegas Hockey Podcast and talk Portland Winterhawks with Brandon RiversAv Sonics Rising Radio