Conquer Your Mountains
I run a network where bloggers can get help and feedback for improving their blogs. Because of it, I face challenges and unpleasant moments every week, but I also get to see the goodness within people occasionally surface. For example, I recently watched a chat conversation unfold where a new blogger was asking for help…
As we go through life we are confronted, rather regularly, by decisions which will alter the course of our individual and collective futures. We must make them. And we must commit to follow-through on the choices and decisions we decide to make. It would be naive to expect to, or assume that we could, go…
About a year ago, I re-watched the movie Hook (“Oh there you are, Peter!”) and discovered something that illuminated my understanding: What we believe not only changes how we see the world, but it also changes who we are. I’ve got a few examples of how this works, but let’s start with Hook and then move to…
Dear Heart, This week was one of the toughest weeks I have had thus far on the trail. I started out this week on the trail with a heart at war. Usually when people think of war they think of irritation, anger, or annoyance. Yet, I have come find out that a heart of…
Awareness with Grace In my last post, I spoke about how our fears and irrational beliefs can keep us stuck in self-defeating patterns. I also introduced an idea called ‘the fear cycle,’ and proposed that analysis of our personal fear cycles can help us learn to interrupt the process that leads to self-defeating behavior. There…
“Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. Think how the friends that really listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius as though it did us good, like ultraviolet rays. This is the reason: …When we listen to people there is an alternating…
Child-like wisdom may sound like an ironic juxtaposition, but I have come to better understand some profound truths from my 14-month old son, Graham. Witnessing a brand new life begin and watching an infant turn into a toddler has offered some incredible learning opportunities for me, and my own forward walking in life has been better…
Optimism. It’s a word that I have often cringed at. To me, it means believing in fairy-tales, trusting that someday your daydreams will become reality. At least, this is what I have been inclined to think. I like to think of myself as a “realist”. I just go through life thinking, “Que Sera, Sera. Whatever…
Lately I’ve been swimming more and more to stay in shape. I have learned that as one swims there is one very important thing, a thing which your swimming form plays into very much, a thing which is as important to swimming as it is to our being–breathing. In order to swim, one must balance…