Unsatisfied with your life? Fortunately, you get to choose the attitudes and behaviors that will increase your level of satisfaction! This article by Joshua Becker, 9 Easy Ways To Become Unsatisfied with Life, provides an excellent opportunity for life reflection and the creation of a more satisfied reality. My husband and I had great fun discussing this article over our morning coffee time today. The article easily generated a lively conversation about life satisfaction and specific focus areas where we both want to grow. In essance, we took turns answering these questions: Of the article’s nine
Read more →“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may be another profound truth.” (Neils Bohr-Nobel Prize-winning physicist) We can develop personal character and become more effective in our relationships by learning to hold the tension of opposing qualities within ourselves in responsible and balanced ways. Such learning requires us to think about some (but not all) things as “both-ands” instead of “either-ors.” For example, I can be dependent and independent in the same relationhip,
Read more →Although life coaching is all about “growing forward”, our pasts can sometimes get in the way of the very progress we say we want to make. We get stuck, we hit roadblocks, we sabotage ourselves, we have difficulty in relationships. Sometimes it’s important to pause, reflect and learn from our past. We can then apply this self-awareness into our current reality and be in a better position to move forward. Take “difficulty in relationships” for example. This just happens
Read more →When was the last time you blessed someone? Or someone blessed you? It is important, I think, to rediscover our power to bless each other. To bless someone is to affirm them, to say good things about them. To say “yes” to who they are and wish them well. We can bless someone with our words, our writing, our touch , and our acts of kindness however small. We can bless the people we know-our family members, friends and co-workers, or even total strangers. Blessing someone can
Read more →The pictures I remember seeing of myself as a child are limited. Yes, there were baby pictures of my siblings and me hanging in the house, but my parents stored most of their photos as slides which were packed into small cardboard boxes in the hallway closet. Upon occasion, my parents would use a slide-viewer or slide projector to view the slides with us kids, but rarely did we get through all of them. When one of my brothers recently digitalized hundreds of my parent’s slides for a family
Read more →“Interruptions can be viewed as sources of irritation or opportunities for service, as moments lost or experience gained, as time wasted or horizons widened. They can annoy us or enrich us, get under our skin or give us a shot in the arm, monopolize our minutes or spice our schedules, depending on our attitude toward them.” William Arthur Ward My husband and I had planned on a small Christmas this year with only a small portion of our geographically scattered
Read more →We seldom realize that we are sent to fulfill God-given tasks. We act as if we were simply dropped down in creation and have to decide to entertain ourselves until we die. But we were sent into the world by God, just as Jesus was. Once we start living our lives with that conviction, we will soon know what we were sent to do. (Henri Nouwen) Two weeks ago today, my daughter, Kim, was in heavy afternoon labor and about to
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