Empowering people to make strengthening choices
I went to a cook-out at a friend’s house. As we sat watching the sun set, I noticed a contraption hanging from the corner of his house. “It’s a mosquito trap,” he explained. I’m not going to try to explain how it worked, but it was clever – and effective. The little rascals flew into […]
“[Dad], can I have a motorcycle when I get old enough?” “If you take care of it.” “What do you have to do?” “Lots of things. You’ve been watching me.” “Will you show me all of them?” “Sure.” “Is it hard?” “Not if you have the right attitude. It’s having the right attitude that’s hard.” […]
There are many ways people go about becoming better human beings and achieving personal improvement: Religious practice: attending church, reading scriptures, praying.
We’ve been talking about the distinction between your life and your life situation. To give you a quick metaphor, your life situation is the pond you swim in – your relationships, your environment, your job, your health, etc. But your life is how you choose to swim through it. Even if there are storms or […]
Yesterday I described the steps you need to go through to make intentional choices and gain control of your reality – the before, during and after. Now I want to give you specific tools you can use to change your approach to challenges:
In my last blog, I talked about the difference between your life and your situation. It’s very easy – human, you might even say – to define yourself by where you are and what you’re dealing with. You’re the one-legged runner. You’re the single mom of three. The guy in line in unemployment. The blind […]
We are surrounded by negativity. These days, in fact, we are completely encased in it. The fear-mongering in every corner, our developing culture of intolerance and irritability, and the constant flood of sensationalist mass media. Just today in a quick browse of the internet I found these stories: From CNN: “America the Miserable?” . . […]
Anything is possible. Anything. You can see it in the faces of the musicians, old and young. Hear it in the ringing voices, feel it pulsing through your veins in time with the rhythm. But when the music stops . . .
