I figure I’ll get more accomplished if I do. So what brought this on? Well… the most common sense path for me towards happiness is the knowledge that my life is a classroom. I have always been a student with a desire to retain and excel. On the days that I am learning, growing, achieving [...]
The current chapter is getting interesting……. I speak of my life as book. Personally I think everyone’s life is some sort of tome. We live in phases and periods. We grow and we change… we have adventures and live through joy and pain, the world around us morphing in grand or sometimes very ambiguous ways. [...]
…and a follower. Personally I have discovered that the years have taught me the best traits of both. I have never believed it is necessary to be one or the other alone, and, find my best days of growth within the open mind of a combination. There are those who would tell you that being [...]
If we can have an alternate universe why not create a different story where you don’t like the one being told? Wait a minute… we can have an alternate universe? Moving back to today’s topic: I started a class today that focuses on the balance of work and life. Ways and means to work with [...]
There are days when I crave it and others when it just arrives… Friday nights I sometimes plop myself down in front of a computer and/or a television set. The week is normally long and the desire to do anything is slim. This past Friday was of this ilk. I came home, talked to a [...]
The alternative tends to give me heartburn. Tonight I had a very pleasant evening of fellowship and correct thinking. This is not so hard to come by… and often is done in my world by writing out the path to a better solution within blog passages and journal entries. Where I have discovered that my [...]
I doubt very much it would be a surprise to anyone who knows me. It is August. Normally at this time of year I would be counting down the days to Labor Day and my yearly jaunt to the place on Earth I would really and truly rather be. I took the calculated risk this [...]
… but OH if that isn’t often the hardest thing to do. There is an old adage that asks: “Would you rather be RIGHT or would you rather be HAPPY.” On any certain day the answer could be different for me. The fact is that I, like so many, hold an ego that is often [...]
Often when things aren’t looking the way you believe they should… a shift is in order. And often it is human nature (or perhaps just mine?) to assume that changes that seem required are tangible and physical. Persons, places or things must be moved, dressed up, forgotten or thrown away. Everything on the outside is [...]
Quite the contrary… It has been important to remind myself that in surrender I am not giving up who I essentially am. I am not giving up on choices or choosing direction. I am not becoming a doormat or a puppet by letting the world or those around me dictate what I do. I am, [...]