Making Choices and Decisions Is Always Eventful

It’s with choices and decisions that you get to drive your life. If you live in the United States, last week you witnessed a rather impressive election. Why the outcome is what it is comes down to one thing: choices and decisions. Specifically, people actively made choices and decisions to make their voices heard. They chose to go out and vote, then decided to vote for people who might govern them better. It’s not perfect, as evidenced by the emerging

You Can Only Ever Take One Step at a Time

But each step gets you from here to there. One of my favorite phrases comes from Lao Tzu. It’s this: “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” But to some degree I prefer this alternative translation: “The journey of a thousand miles begins beneath one’s feet.” In both instances, the notion is that to get from any Point A to Point B, you must take steps. Every. Single. Individual. Step. Counts. It’s impossible to get from

How Truly Crazy Is This World?

It feels like it’s a lot. And it is, but also not so much. The idea of news media was that they could help us all see and understand the happenings of the world around us. Local news covered your city, maybe your state. National news covered the whole nation; international news the world. Then we got CNN and the 24-hour news cycle. After that, we got the internet. Before long, you could know anything, anywhere across the globe, more

Your Path Only Needs to Make Sense to You

After all, you’re the only one who can walk it. I’ve never been exactly normal. Nope. Over the years, I’ve made choices and decisions that have caused some of my friends and family to wonder what is going through my head. Hell, to be honest, there have been plenty of times I’ve questioned that. Probably part of why I’ve been in and out of therapy for most of my life. But the truth is, I never belonged on the paths

Learning When and How to Trust Your Instincts

Some seriously woke (but important) stuff here. Many members of the animal kingdom act on instinct. Once upon a time, long ago, human beings were equally as attuned to their inherent instincts as the rest of the world’s animals. Over time – and I mean tens of thousands of years – we’ve allowed our big brains to apply more reason and logic to the world. I’m not going to get into the science, but this is why human beings are

How You Handle Not Knowing is a Choice

Knowledge is power; but not knowing can be empowering. I love learning. There is always something new to be learned in this world. Long after formal schooling, I find researching and learning new things lights me up and excites me. Everyone is constantly learning. That’s because of this truth: Change is the one and only constant in the universe. Change happens, and it happens all the time. You’ve changed. Maybe a little, maybe a lot, but undoubtedly, you’ve changed. You

Can You Fail and Still Be Positive?

Failing and positivity are not as removed as you might think. I’m currently reading a truly fascinating book about the many nuances of failure. It’s called Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well by Amy C. Edmondson. I’m less than halfway through this book, but it’s already opened some interesting channels in my mind. Modern society tends to look at failure as a negative. To fail is to screw up, be lesser, look bad, and the like. Most

Making and Keeping a Schedule Takes Work

A schedule is about more than time management; it’s also about balance. There’s a lot on my mind today. As I sit here and ponder it, I realize there are three levels to my thinking. The first is global. What in the actual hell is going on out there? Like, how did we get here? Why are those who have the power to fix it unwilling to? How can there be so much shortsightedness to it all? But, of course,

It Can Be Calming and Centering to Be Here Now

The positivity in being here now is huge. I used to give way, way too much attention to the past and the future. Frequently, I’d look back at all the things I did, the choices I did and didn’t make, and the mistakes along the way. While this often colored new choices and decisions, it more often created paralysis, leaving me standing at this crossroads or that, unmoving, not choosing. Similarly, I used to fret about the future. What if

The 5 Things You Genuinely Control

Spoiler Alert: They’re all within you. For the most part, control is an illusion. Yet many people strive for it, demand it, push it, force it, and worse. Whether it’s something tangible or intangible, lots of people have issues with control. Some control outside of yourself is genuine. If you’re behind the wheel of a car, you’re controlling it. Holding a gun, sword, bow, spoon – you’re controlling what it does. Notice what these both have in common – you

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