Take a Moment to Breathe
Just take a moment to breathe. There are so many things that we all want to accomplish at the beginning of the New Year. All of which is admirable. However, we just can’t do it all in two week’s time. Read More …
Tag: focus
Lost In Thought
There is a difference, I am pretty sure, between being lost in thought and meditation. One is something that you can find yourself doing, randomly and perhaps without focus. One is something you can do to find yourself, on purpose Read More …
Squint A Little
If you squint a little bit, do things look more clear? Focusing your mind and your eyes on one thing might be all that it takes. Sometimes, it might even make you hear better, too. Or, understand what the other Read More …
This Is Not Business As Usual
This is not business as usual. It’s different. Things change but you still have to continue to attend to the business at hand and address what happens in your daily routine. Winning the Super Bowl is out of the ordinary, Read More …
When The Bell Doesn’t Ring
When we have trained ourselves to follow certain habits, we sometimes fall behind when the bell doesn’t ring as expected. Or, we make lists, but don’t look at them. Or, we turn off our ringer, and the bell does ring, Read More …
Swimming Upstream
Fish go swiming upstream all the time. Well, some of them do anyway. We never really think of how hard the salmon have it do we? Then, one late evening, after walking all day in 95 degree weather and 90%+ Read More …
I’ve Got a Whole Bag Of Rubber Bands and I Am Not Afraid To Use Them
So tonight…I went to pick up an order at Staples. When the woman saw me she cringed – I could literally, visibly see her get upset (in anticipation of my order not being ready.) Sigh. If I were her and Read More …
Stories We Tell At Dinner
Sometimes, the stories we tell at dinner drive the kids to laughter. Sometimes it is confusion. Other times, down right teenage-angst. Go figure. It happens. When we were kids, we had to be careful. Dad would go on and on Read More …
Focus On The Good
At this very moment, for the last few months, all I can think about is – for everyone out there – to focus on the good… the good things people do the good things people say the good things we Read More …
It’s All About Them
When you decide to have children, you pretty much need to accept that, for a long time anyway, it’s all about them. When they want to eat. When they want to sleep. When they want to do, well. Anything. When Read More …