I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort.
— Don Young
One of my favorite whines has to do with how I look. Yes, I’m getting older and I’m showing my age (where I can’t help it), but that’s not what I’m referring to.
My problem is I’m showing my stress. For all of us who are carrying a little, or a lot, of weight around the middle, there’s good and bad news attached. The good news is that the weight that you’re carrying is less about a lack of discipline or an unwillingness to give up cake/chips/muffins/buttered popcorn, etc. than it is about the amount of stress in your life. The bad news is that if Continue reading » Making Stress Your Friend
Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone.
— G.B. Stern
The end of the year is such a rush with the holiday madness and business deadlines combined. It’s easy to get lost in all the busyness.
In my family, because we’ve all scattered to the winds, getting together for the holidays necessitates at least one full day allocated to travel to the festivities which just adds to the general craziness and the sense that there’s not enough time.
By the time we get to the New Year, I’m ready to get a cup of hot cocoa, a blanket, a good book, an animal to keep me company, and just Continue reading » Goodbye to 2011
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
— Voltaire
How do we survive adversity? What is the difference between surviving and thriving?
I believe the difference is in how we tell our story. And often, the story we tell is the one we inherited.
My mother grew up in the depression. She was one of those people who remembered the depression as being an awful time. There were four of them, my grandfather and grandmother, my aunt and Mom. To hear her tell the story, life was Continue reading » Appreciate What You Have
Ever give yourself the gift of rejoicing when you’ve hit the mark?
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
— Lily Tomlin as “Edith Ann”
I love it when a plan comes together!
This last weekend I taught a class that I’ve taught a couple of times a year for the last six or seven years… AND I taught a totally new class – Huh??? Well of course, part of the riddle is that the group of students is always new to the class and new to me. But this time I was also teaching to a new text and a new set of objectives and a new syllabus – all selected by Continue reading » I Love It When a Plan Comes Together!
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
— Yogi Berra
I spent last week in beautiful Salt Lake City. In addition to being awed by the beauty around me, I was there for an investing class. As much as I love learning about investing, I’ve found that I get embarrassed because I’m such a slow learner.
I don’t mean that I sit there and hold everyone back because I don’t understand, I mean that although there may have been a few techniques that I hadn’t heard before, most of what I learned in this class, I relearned. In other words, I’d heard it before and Continue reading » Caution – Slow Learner Ahead
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