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ARE ALL “BAD HABITS” REALLY BAD OR ARE SOME JUST NOT UNDERSTOOD?

March 7, 2013

“Men’s natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.” Confucius  I’ve been binging on American History this month and plan to polish off a total of 15 books that outline and focus on the history of wars (Civil War, Revolutionary War and the French/Indian War) that currently interest me. I like my non-fiction [...]

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SOMETIMES YOU CAN’T EVEN MAKE LEMONADE OUT OF LEMONS

March 3, 2013

“When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.” Unknown  Recently I’ve been in consistently good spirits. Unfortunately my nature is to obsess over why I’m experiencing these good feelings and I allow my analytical, left-brain, male thinking to take charge and ploddingly dissect every [...]

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BEING DECISIVE HONORS OUR MOST VALUABLE RESOURCE: TIME

February 28, 2013

 “One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.” Ralph Waldo Emerson I love good questions that bring clarity [...]

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FOR PEACE OF MIND, RESIGN AS GENERAL MANAGER OF THE UNIVERSE

February 24, 2013

“Worry is a misuse of imagination.” Dan Zadra  This morning after dealing with a multitude of computer related problems, I begun to worry that the issue might by me rather than a series of legitimate software problems. And what’s even more bothersome is that I have a background in computer programming and systems analysis. Fortunately [...]

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DO YOU HAVE A CLUE AS TO WHAT YOU WANT TO DO WITH YOUR LIFE?

February 20, 2013

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”  Zig Ziglar   Periodically I review my life to see if I’m pursuing objectives that will lead to a full and enjoyable life. I hate being led by inertia and laziness to ruts filled with empty [...]

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RELATIONSHIP REALITY

February 18, 2013

“A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them – they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship.”   Rainer Maria Rilke  We are always honing in on what works and what doesn’t work in our lives. I’m fascinated by the criteria we have for determining friendships and what behavior [...]

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HEY BIG BOY YOU LOOKING FOR A GOOD TIME

February 14, 2013

“There is something called the rapture of the deep, and it refers to what happens when a deep-sea diver spends too much time at the bottom of the ocean and can’t tell which way is up. When he surfaces, he’s liable to have a condition called the bends, where the body can’t adapt to the [...]

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OLD TOO SOON … SMART TOO LATE

February 10, 2013

“No man goes before his time — unless the boss leaves early”    Groucho Marx  Choices allow you to reprioritize your life and create more memorable moments. A memorable moment can have 3 types of “good feeling” payoffs: eager anticipation, the experience itself and fond memories of the experience. It’s interesting that fond memories usually [...]

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Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. – Chinese Proverb

February 7, 2013

“You only live once, but if you work it right, once is enough.”  Mae West How do you jumpstart your life when you get stuck? You have to break or alter your normal pattern of existence. It’s too easy to fall into a rut in which every day is a essentially a rehash of the [...]

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WHAT’S THE CURE FOR RESTLESSNESS?

February 3, 2013

“Is wondering who was the first to look at a cow and think: I’ll squeeze these dangly things here, and drink whatever comes out!”   Unknown Author    Sometimes when I get restless or antsy I think it may be that I want or need to play life bigger. Life for me is the balance between [...]

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