Have You Met Your Inner Child?
Have you met your inner child? I’ll bet you don’t get asked that question every day. I was sitting at dinner with a very good friend and his wife on Monday. It was his birthday, and this had been his first day back at work after a wonderful holiday in the Caribbean last week. When he walked into work that morning, he was met by the HR folks to inform him that they were downsizing and his services were no longer required, effective immediately. Happy Frickin’ Birthday! Well, nowadays being downsized at work is almost a right of passage....
read moreLiving Life With No Regrets
Do you live your life with regrets, looking back at mistakes you’ve made and wishing you had done things differently? This week I had a reader send an e-mail asking about regret and the mistakes that we make in our lives. I shared my thoughts with him and it also gave me the impetus to share my thoughts in a blog. I think Regret is an emotion that we all feel and it is very real. Whenever that emotion shows itself, I believe we need to acknowledge the emotion, and possibly even thank the emotion for making itself present. I believe we need...
read moreGratitude
Do you ever stop and ask yourself what you’re grateful for? Do you take the time to show gratitude? I heard a great story a few weeks ago. A colleague of mine was listening to someone that kept going on and on about what was wrong with their life. Their job sucked, their car was breaking down, they had no money, they were complaining about the service at the local restaurant, the stories just kept coming. My colleague looked up and politely asked the person “what are you grateful for?” Well, that was quite the conversation stopper. If...
read moreAre You Missing Something?
Are you travelling through life so fast that you don’t take time to smell the roses? It seems to me that many people are walking (or should I say running) around today in a state of tunnel vision, living life as others expect them to live it as opposed to living it the way they would choose if they had a choice. They get up in the morning, grab a very quick breakfast (if you could call it that), and head off to work. Many are probably eating their breakfast in the car so that they’re not wasting any time. They get to work and the routine...
read moreWait to Worry – Sharing a Story of Synchronicity
Do you ever get the sense that you’re supposed to share a story? As you may know from my blogs, my first Life Principle is to “Expect Synchronicity”. I’m not much of a believer in coincidences, so I tend to notice and pay attention to little things, and these little things seem to just keep happening. Well, the strangest thing happened to me this week. I was at a working session on Monday night and at one point during a break, I overheard two colleagues talking about something they had read and the topic was “Wait to Worry”. I was...
read moreValentine’s Day – A Day of Unconditional Love
It’s Valentine’s Day, and most of you have probably already wished your sweetheart blessings of love. Maybe there are a few people in your life that you consider to be your Valentine, send love to all of them. What would it look like if we treated Valentine’s Day as a day of Unconditional Love? Maybe it would be the day that you performed your first random act of kindness. Or if you’ve done this type of good deed before, you perform two, or three, or four, or five of them today. Maybe you would look everyone in the eye and smile at...
read moreWho Do You Love?
I wrote in a blog a few weeks ago about one of my life principles being “Love vs. Fear – we always have a choice”. The premise was that for any situation that arises in our life, we always have a choice as to how we see and respond to the situation. We can look at the glass as half full and respond from an emotion rooted in love, or we can look at the glass as half empty and respond from an emotion rooted in fear. We always have choice. I recently came across a quote that I think highlights this principle very well. “A fight is going...
read moreDon’t Give Me Problems, Give Me Solutions
When you encounter any kind of problem, do you focus on the problem or do you focus on finding a possible solution? This isn’t the type of question I ask myself every day, but a couple of days ago I was reminded of a phrase that I used to use on my kids when they would come to me asking for help with a situation. Inevitably this would be the type of question that they had a far better chance of getting an answer to than I ever would. After all, it has been a long time since I studied Grade 10 algebra and I never did know the conversion...
read moreIt’s Dark in Here
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the phrase “coming out of the closet”? If you’re like most people, my guess would be that you’re thinking that someone has decided to tell the world that they are gay. I must confess that that would probably have been my first thought as well. Over the past year or so, I’ve started to think of the phrase more along the lines of anything that a person is hiding about themselves. For example, I have always been a bird watcher. I especially love watching songbirds come to the...
read moreVictory Party – WE Have a Dream!
It was Martin Luther King Day in the U.S. on Monday and every time I hear his name I “hear” his famous speech in my head. I would guess that almost anyone old enough to remember him, and even younger folks that have seen part or all of the speech on video, will remember the four words from his speech. “I HAVE A DREAM.” He issued those words several times during the speech, and while we may not remember the full speech we remember the four words and his themes of freedom and an end to racism based on the premise that “All men are...
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