So many times when I speak with people about choosing themselves, living their best life, achieving their dreams, blah-de-blah-de-blah, I see the reaction “I don’t know how I’m going to squeeze that in with everything else I HAVE to do.” From there I try to determine if that’s just a knee jerk reaction because they…
DetailsLong term plans can help us achieve the most amazing results. While we really like the examples of overnight success, they rarely actually are. We’re just looking at the results of thousands of decisions that have accumulated into the underdog, look they done good, hero story. Excellence is rarely something that appears deus ex machina,…
DetailsBut what happens when it doesn’t? What happens when all the effort you put into making a plan, a really good plan, a lifetime plan, a plan that will get you from here to there, that will help you survive this/that/and the other slips out of sync with reality? That slippery reality that seems to…
DetailsI love spending time with my artist siblings for a great many reasons, one of which is the conversations about color. My brother-in-law talking about the colors in the fused glass portraits he’s doing, how to get flesh tones and shading right through double-digit firings, my sister talking about the colors she uses on her…
DetailsJust because you’re good at something doesn’t necessarily mean that’s a message for you to take that on as a career or a calling. People get confused because they are good at this thing or that and therefore pursue it but find it unfulfilling or even soul killing. What’s up with that? Or they are…
DetailsIf grief teaches us nothing else, it teaches us that words make things real. That’s why we don’t want to say that someone has died, that a relationship is over, that we’ve lost our favorite friend or pet or childhood toy. Because if we say it, then it’s true and life will start moving onwards…
DetailsWe don’t often think about our personal path as something that is interconnected with others. It’s personal to us and connects as necessary for the service we perform or to help us achieve our goals such as to create community, to access some new facet of self, to move us ahead. But we are interconnected…
DetailsIt’s often hard to get an idea of what the big picture will turn out to be when you start walking your path. When people take that first step, when they commit to being who they really are and acting on it, not just inside in their private thoughts and feelings, but in their external…
DetailsIt’s a key question and most people don’t think to ask it of themselves or even take it into consideration. They have questions, they have problems, they have dreams, they have needs and they want solutions and answers. They want things to change. But they don’t. So they seek and they learn and they try. …
DetailsJUST A COMMON SOLDIER (A Soldier Died Today) by A. Lawrence Vaincourt He was getting old and paunchy and his hair was falling fast, And he sat around the Legion, telling stories of the past. Of a war that he had fought in and the deeds that he had done, In his exploits with…
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