Category Archives: Excuses

(Issue #498) 30-30-30-30-30-30-30

Posted on December 8, 2019 by

If you have no difficulty identifying, setting, and achieving goals, skip this post. I don’t want to get in your way. Pass it along to someone who can benefit from it. As I listened to someone speak about a big … Continue reading →

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(#415) Does the Disturbance Disturb You?

Posted on May 6, 2018 by

We limit our own growth and spiritual development. “I’ll be really happy if Negative Neil doesn’t come to the party.”  I go to the party. Sure enough, Negative Neil attends. I grouse, complain, and shuffle off to a corner to … Continue reading →

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(#412) Choices: Where Do You Choose To Be?

Posted on April 15, 2018 by

Once we choose who we want to be, people grow “to the way in which they have been exercised.” – William James – One of my yoga practices this past week, inspired this blog.  As the instructor coached us into … Continue reading →

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(#403) Create Your Own Story Or Someone Else Will

Posted on February 11, 2018 by

It may be too late. Perhaps you have witnessed it.  People in a leadership position who fail to communicate clearly and effectively. An organization experiences gut-wrenching turnover, service decline, loss of client base, and eroding collegiality.  The people charged with … Continue reading →

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(#372) Independence

Posted on July 9, 2017 by

Consider where you can expand beyond your comfort zone. Insights can come at any time.  We just need to be open.  One appeared a few days ago in a yoga class–while I was doing my best imitation of swaying tree, … Continue reading →

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(#369) About Kayaks And Perspective

Posted on June 18, 2017 by

If we focus on the possible negative, we get sucked into it. Lessons. Everywhere, lessons present themselves.  And they remind us that we are always students. Lifelong learners. If we pay attention. My latest education has come over the past … Continue reading →

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(#341) Drop And Leave

Posted on December 4, 2016 by

I have witnessed people play a disappointing game of “drop and leave” with their goals and dreams. Have you ever looked at your desk and wondered, “How in the world did it get in this condition?”  What with books, papers, … Continue reading →

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(#270) Have You Spent Time With Ida Ownly?

Posted on July 26, 2015 by

A relationship with Ida Ownly has no future other than one of contrition, remorse, disappointment, and heartbreak. You know Ida Ownly, don’t you?  I’m sure you (like me) have spent some time with her. And when we do it generally … Continue reading →

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(#217) What We Think We Become

Posted on July 20, 2014 by

Until she made the decision to start focusing on how her now created her later, she lived a life of unfulfilled expectations. Last week in Chicago, Liz Murray opened our conference with riveting revelations about her journey.  Liz’s story is … Continue reading →

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(#198) Appreciation

Posted on March 9, 2014 by

It was a reminder to appreciate my obligations and continue to find and embrace ways to meet them head on. Two and a half weeks ago I had rotator cuff surgery on my left shoulder. Having gone through the process … Continue reading →

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