Okay let’s get a little personal tonight. Do you remember the last time you felt really good? Not just happy in a moment, but having an overall a sense of contentment and confidence in things working out for you? A time when your mind was completely at ease and hovered there for awhile? Inside you…
They say you know a man by his fruit. Well to take it a step further, the fruit you are able to garner for yourself in any category of your life indicates your success or failure. This is taking responsibility at the highest level. Instead of blaming God, circumstances or bad luck, you have to…
Sitting outside on the porch in the warmer weather and enjoying the still, quiet reverie of the morning has always been one of my favorite things to do. There’s just something about the morning, long before the world machine gets going. There’s a gentleness in the air, a softness absent any sharp edges. It’s peaceful…
Generally, most people at an amateur level of golf, face a certain set of challenges throughout a round. Although they are similar, they are never quite the same. There are different clubs to manage based on distances to the hole and how far you think you can whack it. Then there’s the whacking it part.…
Imagine a world existing where other people’s values and opinions mattered more than your own. Picture a scenario where your life is always under examination to see whether or not you measure up. Opine the possibility of forcing yourself to fit in with everybody because you are so desperate to maintain their approval. See the…
As a bonafide purveyor of right thought, I’ve always considered it my personal mission to educate people concerning the importance of their thoughts and even more importantly, how those thoughts help form their beliefs. Yet for all that, there’s another piece. Simply stated, if you can get your thoughts together and keep them together long…
I’m sure you’ve had the experience where you are peacefully driving your car and decided to change lanes. After a couple of glances in the mirror, over you drift only to be met with obnoxious honking and a very heated driver. You can’t really match that bad energy because you know you were in the…
As a card carrying member of the approval seekers club, I can tell you a few things about the pitfalls of the game. Us approval seekers generally got our start early on trying to persuade some meanie to like us. Once we learned the game we could wield powers over people by making sure everyone…
Do you remember when you were young and people told you to look on the bright side? No, not the Monty Python version. It was these deep pithy sayings that carried a lot of weight. So much depth. So much meaning, yet forever lost in a young person’s mind. Those older folks were trying to…
These are certainly some turbulent times we find ourselves in. There’s this manufactured divide with walls and beliefs and all or nothing logic; where if you are one thing you are ten things. It’s an odd time to be an American. It’s like you can see things going dreadfully south but there is nothing you…