The park, one of those places where reflection sometimes comes easier, Kids everywhere playing, cool easy breeze, sun sinking low, Transitions…always thinking about them, task to task, project to project at work, at home, with co-workers, with family, with kids, moving from on thing to the next, adapting, adjusting focus, Progression, always thinking about progressing, …
Category: Attitude
Pride v. Happiness
When I have moments of being proud of my kids, I consciously work to shift my mindset to happiness for them instead. I choose to think of their successes, their progress in life, not as reflections of me, but rather a reflection of their grow, their good fortune. Why do I choose this way of …
Old Poem, New Insight
I’ve known of this poem a long time, I’ve read it a few times, But now I realize, this might be me… Hmm…true for me anyway… “ The Road Not Taken BY ROBERT FROST Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked …
Stoic Notes
Scribbled down, Basics from meditations, Meditations, planned journal become public declarations of belief, By no less than an emperor, Marcus Aurelius, the last of the so-called “The Five Good Emperors”… PRIME basics, words, ideas to live by, 1/ Courage 2/ Self-Disciple 3/ Justice 4/ Wisdom GOOD.
Full Gas
This term is used pretty widely by professional cyclists. Full Gas. It means going all out speed, not sprinting, but otherwise as fast as you can go, as in, During an interview after a race a cyclist might say of the pace and effort, “…oh man, it was quite a race, you could tell it …
Trailblazers
These two amazing humans, Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura of Star Trek fame), and Bill Russell (of NBA fame as player, coach, mentor), two giants in their chosen fields, Two trailblazers who both achieved greatness, then inspired so many to greatness as well, These two people who didn't accept the status quo, who were driven to …
An Attitude of Gratitude
This captures the attitude…let it be so… A Prayer for Generosity, attributed to Ignatius of Loyola… “Eternal Word, only begotten Son of God,Teach me true generosity.Teach me to serve you as you deserve.To give without counting the cost,To fight heedless of wounds,To labor without seeking rest,To sacrifice myself without thought of any rewardSave the knowledge …
Push Through
Push through the doubt, the uncertainty, the inertia, Push through the comparisons and benchmarks, Push through to the knowledge, understanding, and truth that you have in you, Push through to the satisfaction of simple acts, clearing things out, getting things done, Push through the darkness to the light, push through to the joy and belief, …
Longing
When I’m with them, sometimes they’re too much, their combined energy so powerful, immediate, demanding… And when they are gone I long for them back, I long for more, My own version of synchronicity (as Sting wrote and The Police sang), At our best we ponder and revel, and soak up the moments, soak up …
1/2_Full, All GOOD 