If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. - Albert Einstein My Gunny is addicted to his happiness. I know Gunther loves me, and I'm the most important person in his world, but when there's a tennis ball around, my conviction gets a little shaky. There is nothing that can capture G-Man's complete attention like a ... Continue Reading »
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Dig Up the Buried Treasure in Failure
A failure is a result, not a person. To call someone, or call yourself, a failure is a judgment, not a reality. So, what you did failed. What you tried to achieve didn't make it. You came in 2nd, or 3rd, or 134th, didn't get that job, got injured and can't compete anymore, fell short of honor roll or gave up and dropped out, the business went ... Continue Reading »
Real Riches Cannot Be Stolen
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. - Oscar Wilde Times are hard. Jobs lost, homes lost, relationships lost. Savings, security, plans for the future. The loss of these things may be out of your control. But the loss of faith, the loss of hope, only you can ... Continue Reading »
If We Were All Perfect, There’d Be No Word for “Love.”
If we were all perfect, there'd be no need for words like, "regret," "mercy," "pardon," "forgiveness," "compassion," "rehabilitation." But most of all, there'd be no need for "Love." It is because we are none of us perfect that Love is so important. Feeling love and giving love is easy when things are going great. Even when they are going just ... Continue Reading »
What If We Just Admitted, We’re All Scared.
What would the world be like if everyone just dropped the defenses, the pretense, the shouting, the attacks, the accusations, the paranoia, the profiling, the blame, the excuses, the assumptions, and every other tactic of emotional camouflage, and just admitted to ourselves that we're all scared? What if we all, every last one of us, could admit ... Continue Reading »
Building Faith, One Step At A Time
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. - Martin Luther King, Jr. We're losing faith, but losing it may be what it takes to build it back up again--within you. The most precarious way to live your life is to think you can actually control where you're going to end up. Seriously. Nothing in life goes the way ... Continue Reading »