Empowering people to make strengthening choices
“I feel small admitting this, Charlie, but the truth is, I resented you – your money, your power, your prominence.” Hal wondered if he should proceed so openly. But if I don’t, we’re still playing games. It’s risky, but it’s the only way we’ll get to bedrock. Charlie scoffed. “Your attitude put me off, to […]
Today we’ll finish up the self assessment quiz for self actualization. The goal right now is to determine which areas of your life you feel strongest in, and which need work. Remember, you can’t fail this test; this is just a snapshot of where you are. Today we’ll start with: CENTEREDNESS
Yesterday we talked about some of the aspects of your life, and how satisfied you were with them. Now I’d like to zero in on the individual aspects a little more with this quiz. It’s long, so I’ll give it to you in two parts, and then we’ll talk about the results and how this […]
In a small city in Ohio, police offers make a monthly visit to all members of the city council to deliver a package of information for the upcoming council meeting. One Tuesday morning, officers arrived at one council woman’s home to find the door ajar. The officers knocked and called but no one answered and […]
New Zealand writer, poet and educator Sylvia Constance Ashton-Warner once said, “You must be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to be true to yourself. Wise enough to be brave enough to be strong enough to shape yourself from what you actually are.”
Why are you here? Is your existence a series of reactions and habitual behaviors, just moments strung together like beads until the string runs out? “The purpose of your life,” writes Rick Warren in The Purpose Driven Life: What On Earth Am I Here For, “ is far greater than your own personal fulfillment, your […]
They say it’s the little things in life that matter, and if you think about your most precious memories, you’ll know it’s true. You probably can’t remember most of the Christmas gifts you gave in the last few years even though you agonized over the purchases at the time, but you can remember the way […]
Remember this quote? “I must listen to my life and try to understand what it is truly about – quite apart from what I would like it to be about – or my life will never represent anything real in the world, no matter how earnest my intentions . . . Before I can […]
