Inevitable vs. Optional
I saw a great quote from the Dalai Lama the other day — “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” It got me thinking about other things that were “inevitable” and our optional responses. Here are a few I came up with…
I saw a great quote from the Dalai Lama the other day — “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” It got me thinking about other things that were “inevitable” and our optional responses. Here are a few I came up with…
Eagles are cool. People are always talking about soaring with them (soaring is even a cooler word when used in conjunction with eagles.) The eagle is majestic airborne creature whose is used to represent our country and appears in a lot of government buildings, on most of our currency, and is cast for use in numerous medals, […]
January is an ideal time to adopt an “Everyday is Whensday” philosophy. By now you’ve probably noted the unique spelling (or at the very least realized the date of this blog post is most certainly NOT the weekday that falls between Tuesday and Thursday.) I first shared this concept last year after I’d spent some […]
The Red Rubber Ball At Work is an excellent companion to Rules of the Red Rubber Ball! I was expecting to be a more of the original (which I also loved) but the author slightly shifted the approach in this wholly original addition to the Red Rubber Ball series. I thought it was going to […]
As I scramble to add a few final titles to my list of books I’ve read this year, I’m burning through some books that fall under the heading of “short and sweet” — big on message, short on page count. One the books that fills that requirement better than most is Kevin Carroll’s “Rules of the […]
Worries flock together like birds. It starts with just one worry flapping its wings and squawking in your head, but it can quickly lead to other worst-case-what-ifs joining in. Soon you have an entire aviary of anxiety housed in your head. The thing about birds (and worries) is that any sort of quick movement toward […]
Did you know that you get exactly the kind of day you choose?
Did you jump out of bed five minutes before the alarm went off eager to greet the day with a “God, What a good morning!” or did you blindly thrash out a hand to hit the snooze bar after it honked at you for ten minutes with a grumbled “Good God… it’s morning.”
It’s a new day and new choice (YOUR choice) every morning.