The analogy of comparing the brevity of life to the dash on a tombstone is overplayed, but useful. Deciding what you want people to say about the short time between your birth date and death date is a somber and moving experience. Today though, I’ve decided I would like to remove it from my eventual resting place.
Instead of dash… I want a box wrapped in a bow.
“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.” Herm Albright 1876-1944 What has happened to the meaning of the word, positive? I almost feel like I’m composing a eulogy for a departed friend. When I was introduced to Positive, it was by…
Is the fact that, genuinely unhappy, depressed, and downtrodden people will sometimes fake being positive, happy, and up beat, a reason to send the whole idea of positive thinking to the gallows?
Let’s just get this out of the way right now. I bleed Cardinal red. My earliest memory in life is listening to Jack Buck call a St. Louis Cardinal’s game. I make value judgments about people based on their favorite baseball team. Ok, I’m not really proud of the third one, but the truth will…
If you hate your job and find yourself yearning for greener pastures, I have bad news for you. Another job is not the answer.
A different job, just for the sake of having a different job, is an external element. External elements are full of one thing and one thing only…stuff you don’t control.
If you have to make a change, start with yourself.
The day after our house burned, my wife and I gratefully let the kids go over to their grandma’s house so we could get time to get our thoughts together. We went to a local restaurant, where we thought privacy would be a little easier to come by, and talked through what was next….
Getting into action isn’t nearly as difficult as we would like to make it. The most difficult thing is to get past the urge to justify sitting still. It’s easy to justify sleeping in and being lazy on January 1st. Even if you don’t drink, most of us are up late and sleep late, have…
