“How would your life be different if…You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.” Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free True story. I’m waiting in line at the grocery store. Do I count? You … [Read more…]
“Often those that criticize others reveal what he himself lacks.” Shannon L. Alder If you were approached in a critical manner regarding your manner of dress. How would you react to a comment such as, “Whoa, where’d you get that, it looks terrible on you, not the right colors and that pattern has to go.” … [Read more…]
Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories. Zadie Smith “I’m not very coordinated, so I’m not very good at things like this.” So stated a rather capable person at the beginning of an ice-breaker exercise known as a “ball toss.” It’s composed of two parallel lines of people who toss balls, … [Read more…]
The winter season is providing us with a lesson we must heed. The area of Northern Illinois in which I reside, stands in winter’s hard and icy grip. Most of the vegetation appears lifeless. The trees are bare, the grass is brown, the ground is frozen, no apparent growth is occurring. To most plant-life, winter is … [Read more…]
Because we human beings live consciously inside a medium called time, we experience everything in life as having a beginning and an ending. We count our age with annual birthdays, and our marriages with annual anniversaries. We evaluate history in units of time: years, decades and centuries. Because that is so, it is inevitable that … [Read more…]
In the book, “The Power of Positive Thinking,” by Norman Vincent Peale, he shares a story of a pole vaulter. On this particular day, he was up for a scholarship. That meant that if he made the vault, like he had made it before, he was going to get an athletic scholarship to college. We … [Read more…]
What are you planting today to harvest tomorrow? Lailah Gifty Akita Let’s ask ourselves, “What am I harvesting in my life? What do I regularly experience? Am I harvesting satisfaction, accomplishment, success, peace of mind, happiness, prosperity? Or, am I harvesting (experiencing) difficulty, challenge, stress, busyness, ill-health?” It’s quite likely that we’re experiencing a desirable harvest in some areas of our … [Read more…]
If I am more frightened of the appearance, than I am confident about my ability to do anything about it, I have allowed that appearance to steal my identity. Rev. Jesse Jennings We hear about identity theft all the time. I’ve witnessed some clever, and some scary commercials about it. You can purchase both identity … [Read more…]
“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” Alexander Graham Bell” Our lives are rife with doors closing and opening. Some doors slowly and softly close as we exit them, validation that the time has come … [Read more…]
“Others inspire us, information feeds us, practice improves our performance, but we need quiet time to figure things out, to emerge with new discoveries, to unearth original answers.” Ester Buchholz “There’s no more idle time.” This was a statement said to me while talking with a social media consultant. His point being, that we’re typically filling … [Read more…]