Day One Hundred Three of 365 – Life Goes On!
Yesterday I offered a perspective on what happens when we struggle in life. Sometimes in the process, Lives Are Shattered! That is one of the Four Givens about which I have been writing. Today, I want to present the third of the Four Givens and the third of nine Keys to Success mentioned in the […]
Day One Hundred One of 365 – “Life is a Struggle!”
As promised yesterday, I will detail each of the Nine Steps to Success outlined in Day 100 over the next nine days. The very first “Given” in life is that Life is a Struggle. Life is a struggle . . . period! Many in our world today treat struggle as if it were a “four-letter-word” […]
Day One Hundred of 365 – Nine Keys to Success!
Today marks a milestone of sorts in my personal writing challenge. I have reached the first 100 days of writing and I’m excited! I haven’t missed a day! Woo! Hoo! Seriously, this has proven to be an extremely satisfying experience! I have learned much about myself and those who venture into this bald headed brain. […]
Day Seventy-Four of 365 – When It Is What It Is
On Day Seventy-Four of my 365 day writing challenge, I may have hit upon the strangest idea yet – and I mean strange even for me! Sometimes strange ideas work and sometimes they don’t. The jury is still out on this idea. Sometimes my mind takes rabbit-trail trips that wander through canyons of fancy. Sometimes […]
Day Seventy of 365 – “The Hour We Lose”
Tonight is March 11, 2017 – the night we lose an hour this year. I know that at some point, there must have been some logical and practical reason to implement this strange, arbitrary and artificial manipulation of time; however, I fail to see how those reasons from so long ago hold any real merit […]
Day Fifty-Eight of 365 – Unlearn What You Have Learned
Change is difficult. Change is inevitable. Change complicates. Change creates loss. Change is a constant. And sometimes . . . Change isn’t Change at all! What do I mean? Change isn’t change when nothing changes. When everything remains the same as it was before we began, Change isn’t change. When we continue to repeat what […]
Day Fifty-Five of 365 – When In Trouble, Reach!
Many, many years ago (yes, I’m that old…) I heard a presentation that changed my life completely! The title of the presentation was “Living in the Meantimes.” The entire presentation focused on defining Meantimes in two ways and three ways to get through them. I want to offer a thumbnail sketch of the invaluable lessons […]
Day Fifty-Four of 365 – In Death I Am Born
On the surface, the title of this post appears obvious – especially to those whose Faith includes some sort of Eternal afterlife. As is often the case with me, I want to take this proverb in a slightly different direction. I love reading wisdom words from the Hopi people. This particular Hopi proverb caused me […]
Day Forty-Seven of 365 – “Real . . . It Lasts For Always”
What have we learned about Real from the Skin Horse and the Velveteen Rabbit? Well, we have learned the following: It doesn’t happen overnight It takes a long time It doesn’t happen all at once . . . you become It happens when you respond to love like that of a child It is a […]
Day Twenty-Seven of 365 – The Present
Author’s note: I wrote this yesterday (the 27th) but was unable to publish it due to some sort of glitch in this publishing platform. I was frustrated because I thought I had lost my string of days, then I realized that my commitment was to WRITE for 365 days in a row, not necessarily publish. […]