Crawl
Crawl is my word for 2022. This is the first time I’ve picked a word for the year. I’ve seen it as a trend in various places. Words I have seen other people pick include things like: Dedication Progress Clarity Focus Thrive Fearless My word does not fit in this list at all. But I […]
It’s still 2018
In January, it’s easy to be gung-ho about goals for the year ahead. By this time of year, I just feel like thinking about next years goals. Frankly, I don’t want to look at where I fell short of my aspirations for the current year. I do have a practice of reviewing the previous year […]
It’s not good for you to get everything you want
My friend J and I were talking about parenting a while back. She explained how her and her husband S always gave her stepson Little S reasons for things. If they were at the store and he wanted something and the answer was no, the reason might just be it’s not good for you to […]
Our memories suck
And I don’t mean that we remember crappy things, just that we can be crappy at remembering things. There is one point from the intro to psychology class I took in college that has always stood out to me. There was a section on how our memories actually really suck. We learned about different experiments […]
What can you accomplish in 50 years?
What can you accomplish in 50 years? Pick a long period of time to consider. My time for this exercise is 50 years. I’m almost 30, so in 50 years, I would be 80. Depending on your age, your time frame might be different. Even someone who is 80 could live another 20 years. A […]
What to do when you’re feeling depressed or unmotivated
This is not a post about how to cure depression long term. It is a list of things to do TODAY to help you feel at least a tiny bit better TODAY. It includes reasons why these things are helpful. Feeling depressed is an awful thing. It can be super hard to take action to […]
Limitations of the day
What are your limitations today? I pose this question because what we think of as our limitations have a big influence of what we actually do in a day and whether or not we feel guilty about not doing ‘enough’. We get into trouble when we expect our limitations are different than they really are. […]
Being happy for another’s good fortune
Recently I’ve been thinking about something that brings up more questions than answers for me. I’ve been thinking about the list of people who I would call to share good news. It is, sadly, even shorter than the list of people I would call to share bad news. I can think of three people who […]
Gratitude for challenges
“I’m grateful today won’t last forever.” OK, I don’t mean that about today. But I have written that on gratitude lists in the past. Sometimes, I try to be grateful for things I’m not really grateful for or I try to find aspects of awful things to be grateful for. I say or write things […]
Expecting things to go wrong (and why it can be a good thing)
Do you expect things to go wrong in your life? When things do go wrong, do you take it in stride figuring that sometimes things just happen? Or do you think that the universe or God must really be against you? Someone recently told me how an extended family member (from the tone, one he […]