When “you can’t get there from here” – then what?
Sometimes the unexpected sends you reeling and you suddenly find you can’t get there from here anymore…
Playing around with my new iTouch, I decided to get directions to my son’s base from my home in Maryland. So I typed “Wahiawa, Hawaii.” I got turn-by-turn directions until I hit the coast. Then I was told, “Kayak across the Pacific Ocean entering Hawaii.”
— Cindy Hays
Well, a kayak is certainly one way to cross the Pacific Ocean; but a luxury cruise has more appeal.
However, if there’s white water ahead, then I’d choose Continue reading » Get Yourself a Kayak
With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
— Mark Victor Hansen
I’ve never seen myself as creative. It seemed whenever I was asked to participate in a creativity exercise, I had the least number of ideas as well as having the most obvious and boring ideas. I couldn’t draw and if given an assignment to pick something interesting to photograph, my mind immediately goes blank. (Hey, there’s an idea, find a blank billboard and take a picture of that to demonstrate just how NOT creative I am.)
Recently, I read an article by Earl Nightingale. In it, he described what he felt were the key characteristics of a creative person: Continue reading » Still Making Progress
How do you keep your head above water when you feel like you’re drowning?
[Her] resolution is unshaken; tears, though shed, avail not.
— Virgil
In my last few posts I boasted with great élan that, through focused intent and continuing persistence, I would find myself “doing” whatever it is I’m meant to be. But now I find my high-spirited confidence waning – I find myself asking: Did I ever have a successful achieving self? Really and truly?
It seems as though I’m swimming against a riptide of doubt; I’m dog paddling when I meant to Continue reading » Dog Paddle Me Outta This Mood!
Raise yourself up after a fall.
— St. Francis de Sales
I have a friend whose grandson returned from Iraq over a year ago. He had seen some awful things over there, probably more than any of us can even imagine, and he had held his best friend in his arms as he died. Like many of our returning veterans, he tried to keep life the way it had been before he went to Iraq. It just wasn’t possible. After a short period of time, it became obvious that he was struggling with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
After all that we’ve asked of our service people, when they return we expect them to be able to reintegrate into society and be able to manage their lives as if nothing changed. With any injury or illness, if the soldier is conscious, he is expected to Continue reading » An Unpleasant Surprise
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
— Friedrick Nietzsche
The odds that any of us will be successful in achieving a goal are directly proportional to our commitment to figuring out our path to success. Often success is the result of us continuing in the face of small successes or no successes until we reach our goal. It’s not about how “smart” we are. It’s not about who we know. It’s about the ability to be flexibly stubborn in pursuit of our dream.
Stubborn. You probably don’t think of stubbornness as being a positive quality. Certainly when your two year old is stomping her foot at you in an attempt to get what she wants, it isn’t. But stubborn is just another word for Continue reading » Stubborn
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