Ever feel like you "put your foot in your mouth"? Meaning, you hear your self talking and can't believe what you're saying or why? Or you say something and discover the impact and response to your words are like nothing you expected, or intended, and the context was taken all wrong. I'm reminded to the …
Category: Encouragement
Obsessed With Best?
We often hear the advice, "give our best" and pursue excellence in all we do, and we know this is shared with good intent, but to the perfectionist it is like quicksand - advice that sucks us into a deep abyss of endless pursuit. Going for best can be a stronghold that drives stress, condemnation, …
Can’t Take It With You
So often we can live like nothing else matters but our career. We plan for it most of our life. Sacrifice time for it. Move around the globe for it - willing to leave almost anything for it. Clearly, our careers and what we do for a living is important, but our careers are not …
Wait For It
There are so many times I get impatient and frustrated when things don't move as quickly, efficiently, or effectively as I would like. It may be a meeting I'm preparing for, or a special event and everything leading up to it seems to be going astray. I recently faced three events like this back to …
No Problem
How in the world could having problems be a good thing? None of us like problems, or enjoy them, but our perspective of them, can create opportunities for them to make us better. Most any problem we face can do this, if we choose. However, this is a difficult choice for most of us because …
Hardened By Hardship
At an early age, I had to learn to be strong. My parents divorced when my sister and I were young, and as the older bother, I felt I had to be stable for her. It was hard on both of us to travel between our parents homes - leave one to stay with the …
Good Times
Sometimes it feels like there is so much hardship, heartache, and horror in this world, I just want to try and blind myself to it. Many of us try and avoid it at all costs and to numb ourselves to the pains around us. Often times, we might try to accomplish this escapism through shopping, …
