Breathing is a good idea My daughter and I spent about 4 hours today at The Epic Sky Trek Challenge, an aerial trekking course with over 110 challenging elements. Early on as I was navigating a couple of the elements, I noticed that I wasn’t breathing. As soon as I started breathing deeper, I relaxed. […]
Our identity is a conversation
July 4, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Our identity is a conversation We create all kinds of limiting identities without even knowing it. We have stuff like: I’m the kind of person who struggles with money. I’m the kind of person who has limited success. I’m the kind of person who doesn’t get what he wants. I’m the kind of person who […]
Wise Advice
June 27, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Wise Advice I heard Dr James Jackson speak tonight. He is an author, speaker, humanitarian, cultural economist, and the founder of www.projectcure.org. His father taught him and his brothers to “take what you have and turn it into what you want.” This advice launched him on a fabulously successful entrepreneurial career. However, this advice will not work […]
Puzzling
June 22, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Puzzling If we dumped a 1000-piece puzzle on the table, we would expect that it will take some time to put it all together. We would expect to be challenged and have periods of fast progress and periods of slow progress. We’d have pieces that don’t seem to fit anywhere and pieces that look like […]
Entitled to their opinion
June 21, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Entitled to their opinion Everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion – even if we don’t agree with it. A differing opinion doesn’t mean that other person is stupid, wrong, or a troll. People often forget this. And, it seems to be getting worse with the ramp up to the presidential race. Here’s […]
Hopeless and helpless
June 19, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Hopeless and helpless If we have a situation in our lives that we have been unable to change or even to make progress on over quite some time, there’s a very good chance that we have developed some beliefs that the situation is hopeless and that we are helpless to do anything about it. Check […]
Deep Identity
June 17, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Deep Identity Are you a saint that occasionally stumbles or are you a sinner that seldom gets things right? Are you inherently good or inherently bad? Are you a miracle or are you a screw up? Are you a winner or are you a loser? At a deep level, people all too often identify themselves […]
Layers of the Onion
June 16, 2016 by Leave a Comment
A moment of grace
June 14, 2016 by Leave a Comment
A moment of grace During some quiet time today, a picture of someone I don’t like popped into my head. Immediately after that a little voice said, “You know, God loves that person too.” Pow! I don’t have to now become best friends forever with this person. However, I also don’t have a valid excuse […]
Cigarette Ghost
June 11, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Cigarette Ghost Unfortunately, there’s not a ghost that follows us around and burns our arms with a cigarette every time we think our crappy highly repetitive thoughts. If there was, we’d quickly connect the dots that these thoughts are very painful and in no way make our lives better (in fact, they make life much […]
