We can feel a sense of gratitude to someone or something, but it does not necessarily have to become indebtedness. What creates mandatory indebtedness is guilt. Guilt free gratitude You may be grateful to your High School coach who gave you the opportunity to see what you have inside yourself. The Bank Officer who helped […]
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It seems to me that today, the entire industry of providing news is predicated upon encouraging a rush to judgment. Now, I get that there is so much competition to be the first to break a story, to be the first to get an interview that caution is often thrown to the wind when it
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One of my dear friends recently gifted me with a bumper sticker that carries with it a message I dearly love; Pono. This is one of those Hawaiian words that carries with it many subtexts depending upon its context, but generally Pono is defined as righteousness, morality, goodness, virtuous, fair and kind. It’s context in
Although Donna Summer sang this song beautifully in the 70’s, it’s not much of a credo by which to live. Have I mentioned in these blogs that words have power? Do you want to just survive, or do you want to thrive? It takes the same amount of energy to commit yourself to surviving the
Doing your best seems like such a no brainer. Of “Course I do my best, I do my best all the time!” But right here, just between you and I, is there a part of you which sometimes aims for “just good enough?” Don Miguel Ruiz, author of the Four Agreements has an interesting take
