When you've got a lot going on and the pace picks up, don't let it get to you. Resist the temptation to immediately silo-up, close off, push things to the side. Learning to pick up your pace yourself and continue forward is an important life-skill. Example? As you might imagine, my own situation currently has …
Walking Prayer
I've been walking and praying for the last 25 years, anyway. I was brought up in the church, and learned various ways of praying throughout my formative years as a believer. At some point I started praying when I went for walks. This practice is probably pretty common, overall. Walking leads to thinking, thoughts …
Let It Go
Not the famous song from the hit musical cartoon movie, Frozen, but rather, a couple quick reminders offered as lessons. As so often seems the case with this blog, I'm sharing lessons I myself took from recent interactions that provided me helpful insight. "Let it go" when it comes to pushing yourself beyond reasonable measure. …
Resist, Insist, Persist
In the day-to-day activities that amount to living, there is a certain amount of interaction required with "The Man." "The Man" is a euphemism for any organization, faceless entity, or otherwise that attempts to wield authority over our affairs, our decisions, our lives. It's important to remember these three central ideas when dealing with The …
Remember
"Those who do not learn from their history are doomed to repeat it." Remember those who died during the attacks in the United States on 11 September 2001. Remember those who died saving other people on that day. Remember those who have died since responding to the evil that spurred those attacks. REMEMBER.
Spread the GOOD
We all can do it. Like happiness, it's a choice. We choose how we see things. It's up to each of us how we repond. Spread the good. See things on the brighter side. Find the silver lining. Learn the lesson. Take what you can that's positive and move on. Here's the best part: not …
Smile
Find a reason to smile. Easy to say, not so easy to do sometimes. But! It's worth the effort. Find something, no matter how small it may seem, and be happy about it, and smile. Happiness is a choice. Choose it for yourself everyday. Oh and that smile? Well, it's the weekend. For me that …
Good Measure
We are constantly measuring things. Length, Width, Height, for example. Those are the three I count most often at work. They amount to the dimensions of boxes and crates that hold materials and products we transport near and far, outbound and inbound. Multiply those three numbers together and divide by 166, you get the …
Grappler
Thinking a lot about the sport of wrestling lately. It's a topic that comes to mind often for me, truth be told. Though I only wrestled for six years, the sport had a profound and lasting affect on who I am. Clearly that must be the case, because more than three decades on, …
Keep Working
Today's post is a simple one, with two reminders (not my originals, but ones I hold close to my day-to-day all the same): "It's the grind that sharpens the ax." Keep Working. "You can't carry someone else's weight until you can carry your own." Keep Working. GOOD reminders both. As we head into the fall …
