Have you ever caught yourself saying, “As soon as I get through [fill in the blank with your crisis du jour], then life will get back to normal?” But what is normal really? Turns out Heraclitus wasn’t wrong when he said, “The only thing that is constant is change.” Once we give up the expectation … [Read more…]
We’re two months into spring, and I’m feeling pretty good about the progress I’m making on my Spring Bucket List. Health and fitness 1. Train for and complete the Utah Valley 10k. Training is ongoing. My regular readers have seen the weekly updates as part of Friday Favorites. I have also secured a hotel room … [Read more…]
I started this blog 18 months ago with three goals in mind. The 18-month mark seems like an appropriate time for a checkup. Am I meeting those goals? Is this blog healthy, developing as expected? The original goals I was looking for an outlet to express myself, a form of creative writing that would impose … [Read more…]
Many of you know that I am a lifetime member of Weight Watchers. I lost 25 pounds and have managed to keep it off (give or take five pounds) for more than 10 years now. Here is my observation. Losing weight is exciting—challenging and maddening, yes—but never boring. Maintaining weight, on the other hand, while … [Read more…]
Live, laugh, LEARN, and love. Value: Life-long learning and growth There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning. ~Jiddu Krishnamurti Since I … [Read more…]
What do you think of when you hear the word “mission?” Mysterious secret agents with self-destructing recordings? Clean-cut young adults with name tags and scriptures? Carefully-crafted corporate purpose statements? Have your ever thought of it in terms of a personal mission statement? A statement that defines your personal life philosophy—an ethical and behavioral touchstone, … [Read more…]
Dead Last is greater than Did Not Finish, which trumps Did Not Start. This week I officially started training for my first half-marathon in nearly four years. Yikes! I’ve run some 5k’s and 10k’s since then, but I thought I was done with halves. Now here I am preparing to do it again, and I … [Read more…]
“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” ~Sam Leveson Today’s blog continues with last week’s theme of time—only this time, I have a confession to make…I’m a habitual clock watcher. I’m the one sneaking a peak at my watch during a conversation, glancing furtively at the wall clock during a meeting, or … [Read more…]
When I was a child, we had a junk drawer (sorry Mom)—full of all the miscellaneous items that we might someday need, but that didn’t really have a place of their own. I can picture dried up pens, loose buttons and coins, a frayed cloth tape measure, bent paperclips, a used fingernail file. And for … [Read more…]
We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives…not looking for flaws, but for potential. ~ Ellen Goodman It’s the final week of the year. … [Read more…]