It’s simple…but not easy!
Many things in life are simple, but not easy. There’s a reason why 60% of Americans essentially never exercise, why 78% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, why many people have huge regrets at the end of their life for simple things left undone. Eating healthy is simple. Eat mostly plants and not too much. […]
Gratitude’s not a one-time thing…
Not just once, not just for one thing…it’s an everyday-and-everything thing! And I love this tale that shows it so clearly so I’m sharing it again! There once was a woman who woke up one morning, looked in the mirror, and noticed she had only three hairs on her head. “Well,” she said, “I think […]
Change is like a roundabout!
The Arc de Triomphe in Paris is the queen of roundabouts with something like a dozen streets radiating from her hub out into the rest of the city. My sister and I were rather in awe of it (no line markings!) when we visited it in Paris. The poor misunderstood roundabouts, long beloved by motorists […]
Forget the noun, do the verb!
As most of you already know about me… I love playing with words. And this post is fun for me! The difference comes down to whether a person thinks of themselves as a verb or a noun: are you defined by what you do or are you defined by what you are? As a parent […]
Have a rule in place
The reason is simple…personal rules give us a foundational structure by which we can live our lives. They eradicate indecision, temptation, and distraction and (paradoxically) create more freedom for us to do the things we love. It’s one of the reasons why I respect vegetarians who live by the personal rule that “Under no circumstances […]
2 intriguing thoughts on money…
I’ve found two very different thoughts on money that I want to share here! Number one: I read somewhere that money is “frozen time.” That the “stuff” we buy is free…that what we pay for is the peoples’ time to mine/grow/finance/ manufacture/manage/transport the stuff to us. Number two: what money can and does for us! […]
This old house…
A story is told about John Quincy Adams that strikes a special chord with me after my career in real estate and my ever-increasing age! When a friend asked 80-year-old Adams how he was, he replied, “John is very well, thank you. But the house he lives in is sadly dilapidated. It is tottering on […]
Questions that haunt me…
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, then doesn’t it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed? Why, in winter, do we try to keep the house as warm as it was in summer when we complained about the heat? How can a […]
Paws with perspective…
Murphy the Dog shares some delightful thoughts in his monthly column Murphy’s Dogma in the Science of Mind Magazine. I think you will enjoy this one! (And maybe see a lesson in it to be learned?) I have had some long talks with birds. All of them seem glad to have wings and beaks, and […]
Choosing can be hard
One of the most confusing issues we face today is choice. We want choice, but choice can be more difficult than we think, because it works on a simple principle. And the principle runs like this: In order to choose something we have to eliminate everything else. This means that if we have 20 ice-cream […]