Last week, I wrote about being overwhelmed by circumstances and offered a list of suggestions that might help someone get unstuck. You can read it here. Interestingly, right after I posted it I bumped into something I wrote on LinkedIn long before I ever had a blog. It tells me we've been struggling with overload for a long time. I'm reprinting it here with a...
“Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.”~Paulo Coelho Overwhelm. What do you think? Can it be used as a noun? Doesn't it perfectly describe the state of mind we experience when our life seems like a complete, out-of-control hot mess? Almost every dictionary in print categorizes the word as...
“Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That’s in your power.” ~ John Wooden Traits like character, integrity, and moral fiber seem to fascinate us. People who possess these qualities are rare and those who do have them develop a certain mystique. Instead of drama, fits of rage and huge shakeups, their focus is simply...
“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.” ~ W. M. Lewis A couple of weeks ago I shared a personal, soul-stirring experience with you. Read it HERE if you missed it. I had told myself over and over that "sometime" I'd take the time, get off the Interstate and visit the intriguing glass...
"Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get."~H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Wisdom has a way of hiding in the ordinary. I don't remember a time in my life when wisdom showed up in a fancy outfit. It's true that the Bible tells us wisdom is more precious than rubies but I've found she usually shows up in work clothes. Often...
"May we think of freedom not as the opportunity to do as we like but as the opportunity to do the right thing."~ Peter Marshall The Fourth of July makes me completely giddy and I'm a passionate aficionado of fireworks!! They keep my eyes riveted to the sky and I always wish they'd last a lot longer. No matter how old I get, I'm ten again...
“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”~ Meister Eckhart When I was a little kid, you could buy "magic slates," sometimes called paper savers, in grocery stores and dime stores everywhere. They consisted of a clear plastic film layered on top of a sturdy backboard with a special coating. I could write or draw on the film to my heart's content with the handy stylus...
“The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.” ~ Rumi I've grown to love the pinball-like action that certain conversations trigger in my unruly jack rabbit brain. One cell lights up and then boom, another and another and pretty soon I'm thinking, "Aha! Looks like I've stumbled into another life lesson!" And suddenly, limits fall away and another obstructive stretch of brush gets cleared...
“Champion the right to be yourself; dare to be different and to set your own pattern, live your own life, and follow your own star.“~Wilferd Peterson A recent book, The Last Arrow by Erwin Raphael McManus was recommended to me by my mentor. She advised if I read just one book this year, this is it. (Ha! That will be the day!) Well, it had been...
"Clutter is not just physical stuff, it's old ideas, toxic relationships and bad habits." ~Eleanor Brown If you are a regular reader you know this and by the way, bless you if you are. I'm so thankful for you. I love to begin with a quote. It's because I find it sort of satisfying to know others before me have noodled on the same issues as I...