I don’t have enough time. I don’t have the ____ to do that. Money. Guts. Space. House. Clothing. Face. Butt. It’s too hot. Too cold. I can’t do that to my kids. I have to do it for my kids. For my parents, my spouse, my boss too, maybe. I don’t know why I did [...]
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You are seeking instant gratification. The “Magic Pill” theory. Quick weight loss, instant love, one month to riches…blah blah blah. Everyone is promising it. They have “the secret” or “the way.” Even better, they can teach you their secrets and their way! Just call this 1-800 number or give your credit card number or take [...]
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“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don’t know” ~ Mark Twain At some point, I was told I was smart. So I became a Smart Girl. Which was cool, and certainly better than a Stupid Girl, but being a Smart Girl means that you have to be, well, smart. [...]
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It is #2 of the beautiful, brilliant Four Agreements: Don’t Take Anything Personally. Yet, we do. We so do. We make entire movies in our heads about what someone did, or didn’t do, or said, or didn’t say, or meant, or may have meant, or didn’t mean….and so on. We obsess over what they must [...]
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This morning I woke up grumpy. Not cheery. Not bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. Not ready to face the day. Not chipper. No butterflies and birdies circling my head. Grumpy. Grumbling about my mediocre (at best) night’s sleep, stressed about my deadlines today, pissy about how I ate over the weekend, at the ready to snap at [...]
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I know you are seeking it. We all are. The word that will make it worthwhile. The stamp to your parking ticket. The “You’re doing great, keep going.” The sign that you are a good fit. That you are not off-base. That the thing you are doing or the word you are saying is acceptable. [...]
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Some nights, as I look back over the day I have just lived, I think to myself, “That happened this morning? That seems like a million years ago!” The amount of communications we engage in, To-Dos we cross off, stuff we buy and consume, thoughts we entertain, more thoughts that pass us by and breaths [...]
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<– I spent part of this weekend reading this book about verbal abuse. (How’s that for a party weekend?!) I didn’t expect to be writing about this publicly, at least not now, probably not ever. But this morning as I walked my dog in the blackness of 6am, a steady voice from somewhere, nowhere, I [...]
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“We cannot share that which we do not have.” This quote came to me in an email yesterday and it hit home. I started to think about the seemingly never-ending parade of guides and gurus and coaches and “I have your answer” people out there promising to share their secrets and divulge what they know [...]
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This is, I think, a post about gratitude. This is not a “thank you” list, by the way. I have done those before, including here and here. Like many of you, perhaps, I’m not the best or the most proficient at said practice. I took the picture you see to the left at the park [...]
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