I imagine that all of us like to feel good. All of us want to experience happiness, right? Yet feeling good and being happy appear to be somewhat elusive and mysterious, don’t they? So that got me thinking (a dangerous proposition I know). How many Facebook memes give advice on being happy? Happiness is ___________…
I woke up this morning with one prevailing thought, “You’re acting like a spoiled little brat!” The more I pondered that thought, the more I began to understand its application to my life. Enter first world problems. I thought back on my recent past and realized that I spent a lot of my time engaging…
Admittedly, I have never been a fan of restrictions or anything that puts people under bondage. I guess you could say I’m a liberal if liberal means “stop trying to live everyone else’s life and just do you!” You know how annoying it is when you run into those people who insist on telling you…
My grandsons were at the house this past weekend enjoying a good romp and mess making opportunity (goes with the territory!). Two year-old Tristan, formerly playing quietly with the iPad on the couch, suddenly launched it onto to the floor! So I said, “Hey Tristan, you can’t throw the iPad on the floor! You are…
It’s amazing to me how much we depend on money in our culture and how little attention we actually place on obtaining it. I know the cliché, “Money doesn’t buy you happiness,” but I strongly suspect the one who coined it, didn’t have it (smile). In fact, I’m willing to bet that most anti-money slogans…
I like to tell the story of when my wife and I were first married. We got married in college as poor college students (don’t do that!). Besides the obvious power struggles that accompany new marriage (I lost by the way), we didn’t have any money… Yet, when we look back on those times, we…
I’m sure you’ve heard the expression, “It’s the pebbles in the brook that makes it sing,” right? In other words, without those little obstacles located throughout the water, we wouldn’t enjoy the sweet sounds of the water flowing down stream. And while I love the metaphor, (who am I kidding, I love all metaphors! :-))…
If you are like me (an assumption I like to make because it makes me feel better), you spend a lot of time waiting for something. I don’t mean waiting in the grocery store line, I mean waiting for some event to happen; some circumstance to change; some item to arrive before you can be…
I’ve been fascinated lately with the subject of “mindfulness” and living in the moment. I just finished a great book about meditation and its benefits called, “Mindfulness ~ Finding Peace in a Frantic World.” Now before I go any further, let me clarify what it means to meditate. Meditation doesn’t mean emptying your mind of…
“We don’t need no education!” Well, actually we do. “We don’t need no thought control!” Hmmm, I beg to differ. Yet, despite my disagreement with some of the song lyrics, Pink Floyd was actually on to something… Often we find ourselves in life facing many recurring difficulties that play themselves out over and over again. …