Seeing the Big Picture 2:5 …continued from You Are Not Doing This Alone I believe that desperation is a great motivator and that most spiritual pursuits are fueled by desperate conditions and situations. Crisis often brings out the best in people. For the duration of the crisis we put aside our petty problems and focus [...]
Spending/Saving Time We are a culture obsessed with time—how much we have or how little we have. We are also under the illusion that we have time to spend or save as we choose. But as the saying goes, time waits for no one. Time just is. It is there whether we are or not [...]
Like riding a bicycle, once we learn how to drive a car, our body remembers and we no longer have to think about it. On automatic pilot, we start the car, shift into gear, step on the gas, and off we go. Of course, we check the mirror, look over our shoulder, and watch for [...]
Discovery 2:1 – The Second Step: Seeing Clearly & Letting Go …continued from 7 Steps to Loving What You Do – Discovery 1:9 – We All Want To Be Happy In a flash, in a blink of an eye, in one moment the dissatisfaction we experience in our work life can be transformed into deep [...]
Seeing the Big Picture 2:4 …continued from Reaching Out When I was a child I happily went to church and Sunday School every week, said my prayers nightly, and had many conversations with my friends about God as we tried to grasp the idea that God was not born, He just was; a concept I [...]
The effort that many of us put into not doing something or the time we spend thinking about doing something can be extremely stressful and anxiety producing. If you procrastinate, you probably worry about all the time you’re wasting as you think about getting started. You probably don’t waste as much time as you think [...]
Discovery 1:9 – The First Step: Understanding & Acceptance …continued from 7 Steps to Loving What You Do – Discovery 1:8 – Security in Being the Victim We can be happy, even at work. But first we have to come to a truthful, non-judgmental understanding of why we’re unhappy. It’s easy enough to recognize our [...]
Seeing the Big Picture 2:3 …continued from Fear Were you a happy teenager? Did you like and trust people? If you were anything like me and many other people I know, the answer to these questions would be a resounding NO. When I was a teenager, I had decided that other people, especially adults, could [...]
If You Think You Already Spend Too Much Time Alone There’s a thin line between solitude and isolation, between solitude and loneliness. The quality of the time spent alone separates the one from the other. We are social animals. We need the company of other people. Too much time spent unconnected can be unhealthy, especially [...]
