The evening has already rolled past what would have been a reasonable bedtime and here I am once again, half empty beer can in hand, disappointed in the fact that I told myself that I would only have a few beers and then stop… but I lied! Did I know that I was lying to myself? I mean, I wasn’t…
Tag: self improvement
THE BRIGHT SIDE OF BAD RELATIONSHIPS
Let’s start this off with a clarification – this post is about the bright side of the takeaways – the hindsight from having been through a bad relationship. If you are currently in a union that is truly inharmonious then the brightest side of it is that you can leave. “No I can’t.” I didn’t say you can just get…
ONE SMALL STEP INTO A LIFETIME FREE OF CLUTTER
My entire life I have had a superpower – to emit a field of clutter that would populate any open space with piles of papers, boxes, clothes, and any other clutterable item worth forgetting about. It’s amazing how clutter piles can sit there so long that they collect a proper layer of dust and pet hair. Which I then clean…
WHEN ADVICE ISN’T ADVICE – LEARNING TO KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT
How many of you have been in this situation – you’re sharing a conversation with someone and the topic rolls over a problem that’s troubling them… “I just can’t seem to get enough sleep! No matter what I do, I’m always tired and have trouble getting out of bed in the morning! If I could just figure out what’s wrong…
IGNORING OUR OWN NEEDS CONDEMNS OUR CHILDREN
I am blessed with a memory that reaches back to the early days of my time here on Earth. It’s interesting see how people’s beliefs are shaped by their own characteristics – many people have refused to believe that I could possibly remember things from my life back when I was one or two years old – simply because their…
THE MOMENTUM OF BAD HABITS
There is a momentum to bad habits that is all too easy to build. I have what some call an addictive personality – if something gives me a rush, any kind of rush, I have trouble regulating it. This can be triggered by something as seemingly innocuous as browsing reddit to see if there’s anything entertaining on the front page.…
I’M SERIOUS THIS TIME
So what were you last time? This is a common slogan of people aching to make a change. It’s impossible to know how many times so many of us have said this in our lifetime, but it seems to be a mechanism to convince oneself that they truly want something, usually something intended to improve the quality of their life.…