Have you ever considered the connections between people and things across small and great distances? Are there things that don’t seem connected but really are? And what impact do we have on each other that we aren’t even conscious of most of the time? It turns out there are light particles inside an atom called …
Category Archives: Musings
Focus
It’s so easy to get distracted. I often grab my phone with a goal in mind, let’s say I’m going to check my email as an example. I discover I’ve received a text and after I reply I go on Facebook for a minute. Then I put my phone down and go off and do …
Expectations
There once was a couple, they had a very good relationship except for one thing. The wife liked to plan activities and the husband was always late. She thought about how things were going and decided to change how she did things. She decided to expect that her husband would be late and depending on …
Collaboration
I’ve recently come to change my thinking of something. I used to feel like I didn’t achieve certain goals because I didn’t have time. I have a habit of getting interested in lots of things so then I end up with a bunch of things I’d like to get done (writing, working out, making jewelry, …
Attack – A Haiku
Press, squeeze, suffocate Staccato breaths, in limbo Harness thoughts, relief! #AtoZChallenge
Happy Birthday, Albert Einstein!
Today is Albert Einstein’s Birthday Did you ever consider how great ideas come about? They probably don’t come to us by running around, being busy, and being consumed by noise. Great ideas come from reflecting on the person you would like to become and figuring out how to use your particular knowledge to advance . …
Why Do We Like Quotations?
Do you like quotations? Did you ever wonder why so many people are drawn to them? You can get blank journals with inspirational quotes, you can look them up on the internet, you can display them for inspiration. But why do we like them? I think we like quotes because they have the power to …
How Day Dreaming Can Help You find Success
I have friends who constantly win raffles and contests. It doesn’t require any skill on their parts—just enough faith to participate. Years ago, before seeing them win, I wouldn’t even enter contests because losing was upsetting. I thought of myself as someone who didn’t win contests and each loss reinforced this view of myself. Have …
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Reminders
We live in the information age and with so much information floating around all of the time, it’s not always new information. It’s often stuff we know but it’s helpful to have reminders. I just started listening to the Optimal Living Daily podcast where they read other people’s blogs aloud every day. I started with the Personal …
A or B…or C?
Decisions can change our lives radically— like moving across the country. This decision requires courage and energy to handle making the choice to move and then preparing to leave and adjusting to the new environment. How do we decide? The intial idea emerges from desires seemingly out nowhere. Information Gathering The period before making the …