Stop and smell the roses

What do you do when life hits you hard? When things are going along just fine, and then the phone rings? Bad news. Something terrible has happened. Life at those moments is hard to understand. Why do bad things happen to good people? Why does life involve so much...

If

Every person seeks happiness. You hear it all the time. “I just want to be happy.” “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” This last phrase points out an important aspect, the pursuit of happiness. There is no guarantee that it can be...

Sometimes you make me feel so…

While driving down the highway in the fast lane, the person in front of you appears to have no idea what the fast lane means. After running all over town with the kids, you arrive home. They know they have rooms yet insist that the entire house is their closet and...

What did you expect?

We hear what we expect to hear, we see what we expect to see. Our expectation changes our experience. If we walk into a meeting and expect it to be a long, drawn out process rivaled only by a root canal or preparing your taxes, more than likely it will not disappoint....

What did you just say?

Now I know you have been in this situation. You are involved in your daily tasks with your family or significant other and they say something in passing to you. While whatever they said was innocuous, your interpretation was anything but. So you storm out of the room...

It’s Alive, It’s Alive!

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who come alive.” -Harold Thurman Whitman Have you ever asked yourself this question: What makes me come...