This top 10 list is gleaned from 21 months of suffering, tears, reflection, setbacks, surgeries, solitude, discoveries and lots of ups and downs. The order is random but the lessons are life changing. #10: Learn to like yourself and if you don’t, change. If you don’t like yourself and are forced to be alone much […]
It may surprise you but pain is not always the enemy we make it out to be. When put in the proper perspective, pain can be our friend and ally. There is no doubt I am much more acquainted with pain than ever before. Some of the pain I’ve experienced this past year and a half […]
This week I saw from a distance my new normal and I was not impressed! Maybe it has happened to you. You look into the future and are shocked by what you see coming. The moment I saw this new normal was during my latest hospital visit. This visit was for surgery number eight where […]
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Wayne Dyer Any time you are faced with challenging circumstances you have a choice to make. You can hold up the white flag and crawl under the covers in retreat or get out of bed, find a place on the […]
One quality admired in people is a sense of self-mastery – the ability to withstand the emotional storms that blow into our lives. The contrast to self-mastery in the words of Hamlet is becoming “passion’s slave.” If our passions run our lives, we are taken out of the driver’s seat and left to blow any […]
An old saying to help you think about making the best of a less than ideal situation is: “Whatever your lot is life is, build something on it!” Another phrase I’ve learned to use is “I’m living in the land between.” I first heard the phrase in a book written by Jeff Manion and at […]
The ancient Greeks had two words for time – one was chronos and the other was kairos. The quality of your life will be greatly enhanced if you can determine what time it is and then set your clock accordingly! Chronos time is: Measured Raced against A number of days Represented by a stop watch […]
The journey of pain and suffering is a lot like the journey Frodo was asked to take in the classic work written by J.R. Tolkien entitled The Lord of the Rings. In that series of books and award winning movies, Frodo was given the burden and responsibility of carrying the ring over treacherous terrain to […]
Have you ever asked “Why” when bad things happen? I’m sure most of us have but for sake of argument, how much practical good does it do us to ask why? Do you feel better? Do you resolve issues? Do you get unstuck and start to move forward? Not likely. A better question that moves […]
Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart (John Adams). Part of learning to dance with adversity and find hope in painful circumstances is to have a framework to help you deal with the losses that come into our lives (whether they be as traumatic as a death […]
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