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 →What’s Your Story? My friend, Bill, protected me from a Mama goose attack this afternoon. At least that’s the story that Bill, Carrie (another friend) and I settled on by the time we finished our 40 mile bike ride. We were on the final 10 mile stretch when we came upon the goose and her babies standing quietly alongside the trail. Carrie had just passed them as Bill, drafting close behind me, and I were fast approaching. That’s when the
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
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