This is my sixth post for the Your Turn Challenge. Progress toward my goals: Marathon: On Track. No change since yesterday. Two Square Yards of Earth: Behind Schedule. I made some progress on the outline yesterday. There’s still a good chance I can finish the outline by the end of next week. 100 Posts: Ahead […]
This is my first post for the Your Turn Challenge. Every day for the next seven days, I will post here. Progress toward my goals: Marathon: On Track. I started week two of the Couch to 5K program this morning. I’ve managed to suck my son in; he ran with me this morning, and says […]
What if … … There were no such thing as destiny? … Our place had more to do with our attitude and skills than our circumstances? … The only way to find a soulmate were to choose someone with whom we have a profound connection and dedicate our lives to making that person happy, trusting […]
Some people love where they work. They love what they do and who they work with. They love their bosses, their projects, and their customers. What they make matters less to them than it does to you–not because they make more, but because they feel more fulfilled by their work. Many of these folks make […]
I heard about this one on a podcast recently. Unfortunately, I can’t remember whose podcast or which episode–I listen to several episodes of a number of podcasts every day, and I’m not very good about taking notes–but the principle stuck with me. You may have heard of this principle already. It’s the cure to a […]
Actually, nothing can make you happy. You have to choose happiness. That’s where courage comes in. That’s easy for you to say, you tell me. You have no idea the kind of day I’ve had. That’s true. I have no idea the kind of day you’ve had. But I know a thing or two about […]
Courageous Action — Daily Acts of Courage — Medium. Stop thinking of reasons why it can’t be done, otherwise it won’t be done. Dan Pedersen says just I want to say, only much more succinctly. It’s easy to talk ourselves out of trying, because how could we ever possibly accomplish the thing we’re dreaming about? […]
Now that I’ve finished my series on Todd Henry’s everyday acts of bravery, I’m starting an even more ambitious series: each Sunday, I’ll post an article focused on how courage can improve a specific area of your life. By my count, there are 14 Sundays left in 2014. So for the rest of the year, […]
I once had a priest apologize to me and a roomful of others, on behalf of the entire Catholic church, if any of us had been abused by a priest. It was a touching gesture, delivered almost twenty years ago, at a time when all the victims of decades of priestly misconduct seemed to be […]
Wherever you go, there you are. I have no idea who first said this, and for once, Google is no help. It’s the title of a book by Jon Kabat-Zinn, first published in 1994, but a friend of mine used to use the phrase in high school in the late ’80s. But where it comes […]