20 Seconds of Courage

20 Seconds of Courage

20 Seconds #2 “You know, sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it.”― Benjamin Mee, We Bought a ZooI love this quote. At times,...
20 Seconds to Calm

20 Seconds to Calm

20 Seconds #1 If you are feeling angst, stress and anxiety, take 20 seconds to do this exercise. If you feel fine, take 20 seconds to do this exercise and see what happens.Take a deep breath. In through the nose, out through the mouth.Take another deep...
New Adventures

New Adventures

New Adventures Summer Sightings #3 In the 6th inning, they packed it up. Their 8-month-old baby had done well at his first AAA Dodgers baseball game. But, these young parents would not be seeing the end of the game. Still, they had embarked on a grand, new experience...
Ice Cream

Ice Cream

Summer Sightings #2 She dropped her ice cream.Three-year-old reasoning ensued. Mom was busy with the baby in the stroller, her back turned. The dog was quick to act, swooping in to start licking the dropped ice cream.Still no crying, just thinking. From my seat inside...
Contentment in the Chaos

Contentment in the Chaos

Summer Sightings #1 At 85 years old, he drives a convertible and smiles a lot. He is one of my favorite people with Parkinson’s. In his career, he managed and led hundreds of people in a multi-state regional area, which surely entailed significant stress. These...
10 Tips for Better Discipline

10 Tips for Better Discipline

Freedom of Discipline #3 Today, here are ten tips for better discipline that are helping me and will hopefully be useful to you. 1. A little bit of something is better than a whole lot of nothing. 2. Said another way, doing a little bit of what you don’t feel like...
Disappointment with Discipline

Disappointment with Discipline

Disappointment with Discipline Freedom of Discipline #2 Disappointment is perhaps one of the most common experiences related to the notion of discipline and self-control. You start a diet, an exercise program, or some other worthy habit only to fall off the proverbial...
Unseen Victories

Unseen Victories

Freedom of Discipline #1 No one may notice, but you will know. When you do that difficult thing or complete that life giving habit, you can smile, knowing that you have done the right thing though it may go unseen. One of the common denominators of success in any area...
Listen

Listen

Compassion #3 What if one word could change your mind? What if your whole posture toward a person, a job, or a task could be improved by adopting a new key word that resets your expectations? Try this. Tap the brakes on the rumble of thoughts between your ears, and...
Seeing People

Seeing People

Compassion #2 Past the fear, past the anger,Past the words, theirs and mine,I see this one person. Beyond conservative, liberal or confused,Beyond the horror, expressed in good ways and bad,I see into the eyes of this one person. More than color or clothing style,More...

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