Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and the hardest to overcome, for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, “It’s no use – I can’t do it.”
— Maxwell Maltz
Lately, my friends have been facing some major challenges. One of my friends is struggling with a breakup – which she initiated. She’s now considering getting back together with the guy because she’s lonely – and her biological clock is ticking.
Another friend has both of her grown sons living with her. The older one just lost his job – AGAIN(!!!) – and the younger hasn’t worked in many, many months. She’s heading towards retirement age but still has a house full of kids that she’s supporting.
Both of these people are Continue reading » Get Out of That Pit
The only reason for time is so everything doesn’t happen at once.
— Albert Einstein
Just when I begin to think maybe I’ve figured out how to navigate all the demands on my time, fate intervenes and shows me just how wrong I am… or maybe it’s like my mentor once explained to me. “To truly figure out what a secretary can do, you just keep adding little bits to her responsibilities until eventually no more can be added. Then you know her true capacity for work.” Needless to say, he said that many years ago, when Continue reading » The Old Lessons Are the Best Lessons
How do you choose to see your world? Is it filled with things going wrong or are you filled with the confidence to carry you over, around and through whatever life throws you?
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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
— John Milton
Mutter, Mutter, Mutter…
Well, Ellie muttered her way through a bunch of clutter last week and forgot to mention it in Wishing You Joy… Mutter, mutter, mutter… and at Aisling’s ArtistsJournals.com you can view a much more artistic version of clutter muttering – go ahead, look at it; it’s a fun rendition of:
Being clear of clutter is one of the greatest aids I know to discovering and manifesting the life you want.
Now ain’t that the truth?
And PattiAnn suggested in Is It Adversity or Is It Life? that perhaps we’re cluttering our lives with mutterings about all those awful things that seem to pop up at the worst possible moment. As if they’re not supposed to be happening to us! And, contrary to Continue reading » Adversity be Damned, Please Pass the Carmels!
Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.
— Burt Rutan
At dog park the other day, my neighbor asked me if I had seen the latest Time Magazine. He explained that according to Time, the last decade, from 2000 to the present, had been the decade from hell. At first I didn’t want to read it but I decided that it might be interesting to see what had caused them to designate the last 10 years as the “decade from hell.”
Some of the things included in the article were:
- The 2000 election with its disputed results
- September 11th
- The war in Afghanistan
- The war in Iraq
- December, 2004 tsunami
- Katrina
- Recession
- Bernie Madoff
- Disintegration of Detroit
- Guantanamo
Yes, there definitely were some challenges in the last 10 years. AND there definitely is a bias to see things as only negative. Although none of us would have chosen these events if we were given a choice, I find the list to be hopeful – here’s why: Continue reading » The Decade of Testing
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
— Seneca
Remember that commercial – “Is it real or is it Memorex?” They would usually have an opera singer hitting a really high note and breaking a glass and then play the recording of the singer and break another glass. It was a way to show the true fidelity of the recording.
I’ve been noticing how much we, as a society, have been talking about our troubles. Have you noticed? We talk about what bothers us more than we talk about what pleases us. There’s been a lot of conversation about how bad things are economically and how the Baby Boomers won’t have the retirement that they expected. It seems that we’re on a perpetual downer around here. The conclusion that I’ve reached is that somehow, we’ve decided that problems aren’t part of life, which is why we get soooo bent out of shape when a problem turns up.
I blame it on the Declaration of Independence. Continue reading » Is It Adversity or Is It Life?
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