Mean, Inside or Out?
Brilliance
I’ve been feeling crappy for a few years now. Admittedly, my version of crappy is probably pretty good for the average person. But I don’t live an average life. The noticeable dip in my energy, stamina, excitement, creativity and overall juiciness has been wreaking some havoc with my big and grand to-do’s. …
Where Expression and Compassion Meet
There’s a lot of talk in the self-development word about authenticity. It seems to be the buzzword that everyone’s after. Complete self-expression is my version of authenticity, and has been the theme of my adult life. It was a response to my silence as a young person, deathly afraid of speaking for my first…
Thailand Tales II – Befriending the Dragon (or Better Out Than In)
I Don’t Wanna!
“The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactivity.” ~ Stephen R. Covey from The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People Resistance is a bear, my friends. (Another B-word came to mind but I decided to keep it clean.) One…
The Answer to ‘Why Me?’
I belong to many online writer’s groups, but hardly participate in most of them. I decided to do some culling. To streamline (again) what’s coming into my inbox every day and remove myself from the information streams in which the material doesn’t add to my life. I went on one of the sites in question,…
I Am…
The Gift of Confusion
No one likes to be confused. (I took a poll… it’s unanimous.) A very famous motivational speaker and teacher would have his large audiences clap vigorously whenever someone said the words, “I am confused.” It was confusing. Eventually, I (and the rest of the observers to his life-changing methods) figured out that the state of…
Perspective
What We See: A Practice in Choosing
