Tag: storytelling

  • Pillars

    We work our lives to establish pillars to support the buildings in which we dwell, those in which we work, and even those in which we eat, drink and shop. Have you ever considered the pillars that we build to support our lives? What do these pillars look like? Are they people or actions? Are…

  • My Story

    My Story Another morning, another blank page staring at me, waiting for my pen to scratch my life experience and wisdom. Waiting for me to tell once or to tell once again a story, an experience or an observation. And here I sit, struggling, pen in hand but no wisdom or anecdote readily flows on…

  • Mindset

    Mindset Do you ever wonder what dictates success? If everything is equal and genetics plays no part, what determines who will succeed and who will not? Who has the wherewithal to struggle through and not acquiesce? Who does not fail, but learns and applies the learned lessons to conquer? It is all about mindset. You…

  • Perspective

    Perspective Over the last two weeks, I spent some time fellowshipping with high school classmates. Some I have not seen in close to forty years, others I have seen in five year intervals, and an even smaller number that I interact with more often than every five years. Some of these folks I consider good…

  • Faster?

    If you have everything under control, you’re not moving fast enough. ~~Mario Andretti~~ The source of the quote makes me smile. Of course, a race car driver would believe that. Driving at 200 mph would put everything on the edge of control. EVERYTHING for me would be just a little too close to out of…

  • Choice

    The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. ~Oprah Winfrey~ Gratitude is a choice. I am lucky to have so many things in my life. I have a roof over my head. I have family that loves me. I have friends who care and would do anything…

  • Believe You Are Happy

    It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it. Dale Carnegie The scale for happiness is so often placed on possessions. People believe they will be happy when they own the biggest house…

  • Definitions

    I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become C.G. Jung Definitions are important. Life is full of experiences. Many of them are successful endeavors and many are utter failures. It seems we choose to dwell on the disappointments. Our failures and the negativity we often associate with them are…

  • My Heart Aches

    My heart aches. It seems impossible but these events continue to happen. Day after day the news is filled with stories of needless violence and the death of innocents. Society gasps and offers a moment of silence but since it does not affect them directly, they go on with their life after offering encouraging words.…

  • Scraps

    I look around myself and I found scraps of incomplete thoughts jotted down on paper or in a document. It seems like my mind cannot commit to completing a thought or formulating an idea or a transition phrase. I think it is more of an indication of where I am as a person. I am…