 Photo credit: dicktay2000 Is the sun shining where you are?
In other words, this cliché tells us: Continue reading » Haymaking Anyone? Photo credit: Karrett Barbosa - Fallen Studios What if you made personal growth and renewal your theme for the next six weeks?One of our readers reminded me over the weekend that a window of opportunity is opening today… Here’s what s/he had to say:
And although I’d already written a different post for today, I wanted to give a Continue reading » Mardi Gras, the Feast before the Famine Photo credit: nunocarvalho.org
This past weekend was the 75th anniversary of Alcoholics Anonymous, the group that helps others like themselves by “having one drunk talk to another” and by taking one day at a time. The secret to their success is that they know that little changes come from doing something that we didn’t used to do, every day. Over time the little changes become big changes and we’ve accomplished something that we never knew we could. In this week’s LA Times, a recovering alcoholic told his story. In the article, Chas relates how he really, really didn’t want to go to his first AA meeting. He had seen AA help his father, his uncle, and his three brothers, but he had lots of reasons it wouldn’t work for him. A friend got him to go to a meeting anyway. He writes: Continue reading » Little Changes Into Big Ones
Back when I was working in Corporate America managing the installation of large computer systems, it was very important that everything be done correctly. When a computer was ordered, it wasn’t delivered like today’s PCs are, it arrived in pieces and needed to be assembled. Elaborate plans needed to be made to assemble the equipment, install the operating system (think Windows) and migrate the data. These machines were so physically large that it was sometimes necessary to plan a route from the delivery truck into the machine room. Because of the complexity of the process and the number of people from different organizations that needed to be involved, we had a process called “Systems Assurance.” There were two purposes to the Systems Assurance meeting; ensure that nothing Continue reading » Still on Target Using Creative Optimism
Malibu (the kitten) has one major goal in life – to get onto my desk. Although he will give you the impression that he is interested in other things, in reality he is focused like a laser on my desk. I’m not sure what the attraction is, maybe it’s just that each time he gets there, someone removes him, but whatever it is, he is determined. Because he is so determined, no matter what he is doing, IF I walk away from my desk for a moment and don’t move my chair away from the desk, he will leave whatever he is playing with and within seconds, he will Continue reading » Still Heading for the Target |
 Take a short break and consider the following: “Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.” John Ruskin 
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