Everyone is telling you nowadays that you have to learn how to shine bright. “Don’t lose your shine baby!” “Don’t let them take away your shine, girl! I think the message is that we are supposed to shine. But, sometimes we don’t shine. Sometimes we haven’t shined in so long that we forgot what shining…
As we all continue faithfully on in our quest for happiness, it becomes apparent that much of the happiness we do not enjoy is a result of not doing something properly or else rehearsing thinking errors or even making improper use of our time. Tonight, therefore, is all about time and how you use it.…
Have you ever gone on a vacation? First you eagerly anticipate it, then you dream about what you are going to do when you get there. Finally vacation time begins. What is the first thing you do? You turn on your vacation mindset! All required tasks to be completed, put on hold. All stress and…
Ahh yes, the secret to happy living! Who doesn’t like to talk about happiness? Next to love it is probably the most sought after thing in the whole world. There are principles, keys, theories, ideas, concepts, methods, techniques, habits, plans, all promising the much longed for yet elusive happiness. Life absent happiness is not good.…
I know you have seen the memes. I know you have read the stories. Life is short, eat the cookies. It seems so trite. It’s something everyone seems to say. Usually used to make some allowance for this or for that. But, at the end of the day, life is short, very short. Before you…
Relationships are admittedly complicated because of the many variables involved with human beings. Yet, for all of our differences, there seem to be some key principles that, when employed, can bring about a long lasting and satisfying connection. Whether you have been married for a long time, married for a relatively short time or even…
The other night I woke up with Minnie Ripperton’s song, “Back Down Memory Lane” playing through my mind. Oddly, when I was a young man, the song always seemed to make me want to cry. Yet here it was again, in my head in the middle of the night for no apparent reason. You have…
It seems we often miss out on so much life because we are driven by the need for accomplishments. While not unique to our American culture, putting all of our focus and attention on reaching some end leaves a lot of time in between. The time in between is actually our life. In order to…
I don’t know if it was a moon cycle or the wrong crowd, but everyone I passed by the other day exuded palpable despair. It was like they were walking, but not really alive. You could see in their eyes that all of the life had been sucked out of them. And it wasn’t just…
Maybe it’s not until middle age that how short life actually is becomes a realization for you. The time, the moments that we have are fleeting. Each moment we are in, however sublime, is a moment that is lost forever except where it lives on in our memories. The children grow up much sooner than…