Have you ever noticed how many bad drivers there are on the road? There’s a lot of them. But that’s not you, right? Surely you’re one of the good ones. Interestingly, studies show that people tend to rate themselves as being a better driver than most other people. But it simply can’t be true that […]
On this Fourth of July, I am reminded of our freedoms and our rights including the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Most of us are busily engaged in activities we believe will help us to achieve happiness. Yet happiness seems to elude us. It can be so fleeting! Are you pursuing […]
How many things do you feel you have to do in life? Do you have to do the laundry? Do you have to go to work? Do you have to get the kids to practice? There is a new way of looking at these things that feels pretty freeing. Instead of telling yourself or other […]
You know how people say, Cheese!” when they are posing for a picture? Well, I think something was lost in the translation. My sister-in-law went to Mexico with her husband to visit his family. As everyone posed for a picture, they exclaimed, “Queso!” That’s Spanish for “cheese.” Makes sense right? The problem is that when […]
Sometimes criticism hurts. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could just let it go and not bother us? Just let it roll off like water off a duck’s back. Sometimes criticism stings, sometimes it doesn’t. What’s the difference? And how can we shift something inside us so it doesn’t hurt so bad? I was reading […]
If you wanted to grow some vegetables, you’d plant a garden. Let’s assume it’s a traditional garden with real soil–not a fancy hydroponic thingy. You’d prep the soil and plan the seeds. Maybe you even set up a drip system so you didn’t need to water it manually. Could you stop there and assume you’d […]
If you ever have some good information to share, I’ve learned a key lesson in how to share that information better. Ready? Here it is: less is more. You’ve probably heard that before. I’ve heard it a lot, but I’m just really starting to understand it now. It’s easy to want to give lots of […]
One of my favorite radio stations–KLOVE–claims that it makes your workday fly by. It got me thinking. How many people are stoked to have their workday fly by? Do most people want their workday to hurry up so they can get on to doing something else they’d rather be doing? You see, I can’t relate […]
Do you have a dream you’ve been putting off? Maybe you’ve had a dream in your heart to make a big difference in people’s lives, but you see it coming way off in the future. How cool would it be if you could realize that dream now instead of years from now? I’ve seen people […]
What are you really good at? I bet you weren’t always good at those things. In fact, I bet at the beginning you were really terrible at them. That’s just how it is. We start off bad at something and we keep working at it and then we get to be good at it. We […]
