Willpower (or procrastination!) part 2
Procrastination is often our response to the diminishment of our willpower. As we start “using up” our resource of willpower, we seem to find lots of ways to procrastinate, to distract ourselves from our feelings of frustration and/or inadequacy! I think many of us see ourselves as a “pro” at procrastinating. We learned it young, first […]
Never enough willpower! part 1
Don’t you just hate it when your willpower falters and fails and you hit the snooze button, roll over and skip your early morning exercise, again? We’ve read that willpower is a “finite” resource-easy to use up, often long before we’ve got that new habit established. So, what’s a gal like me to do with […]
Life is..?
Did you ever get lost on Google? I spent an untold amount of time searching for quotes that I could include when I write about what “Life” is to me. And I found so many fascinating quotes that I decided that this post would just be a summary of my favorites. I narrowed it down to these […]
The not-so-ugly duckling
Remember the Hans Christian Andersen’s story of The Ugly Duckling? As a child, I found the story distressing to me with those bigger birds pecking on the poor homely “duckling” who finally ran away. The misery and the loneliness, the winter when he froze in the ice…I was unhappy for him until finally in the spring the mistreated bird […]
Pushmi-Pullyu
Do you remember Doctor Dolittle, the man who learned to talk to the animals? First there was the the book for youngsters by Hugh Lofting. And later the movie starring Rex Harrison. Or are you too young?? If so, check it out! The animal I remember the best is the pushmi-pullyu, an imaginary creature resembling […]
Who else has ever crammed for a test?
Cramming versus the Law of the Farm! Did you ever “cram” in school? Goof off during the semester, then spend all night before the big test trying to cram a semester’s worth of learning into your head? In our social culture we sometimes think we can dismiss natural processes, cheat the system, and still win […]
A week ago, “Boston” hadn’t happened
Life changes in the blink of an eye. And we just think that it can’t happen to us. My son has run in a number of the Boston marathons over the years, so last week’s events came home to me a bit sharper than it might have otherwise. But whether as an individual or […]
Spring Cleaning and Your Life
How does spring make you feel? Does it lighten your heart as it does mine? It feels like a new beginning, a fresh start that begs me to open my internal windows and release the stale and tired emotions I’ve carried all winter. I feel a light breeze of peace and positivity wash over […]