Things always get worse before they get better, and when they do get better, they get worse. It’s a paradoxical situation that happens when big improvements are made – the door is opened to growth and along with it comes a brand new set of problems. When a person learns to ride a bicycle they add to their life a…
Time is the mechanism through which life finds meaning. Everybody and everything has a limited slice of the temporal plane. With time being relative, our own slice of it tends to be very much shorter than we might like. Paradoxically enough, it is our inevitable death that gives us reason to live in the first place. A common fantasy of…
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…
What a day in age we share. Look around us and we see the most amazing time that has ever been known to mankind, yet we are still not at peace. In fact, with so many people bustling around in this world it seems like we are getting farther away from living in harmony with our own selves. This is…
It’s early morning of a typically beautiful day in Italy and many thousands of fans are making their way into the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, the Formula 1 circuit in Imola for race day at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix. The fans lining the stands bring their usual atmosphere of excitement and curiosity, but also carry a lingering…
In Stephen R. Covey’s book “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” he mentions his research through the last 200 years of writing on success. (Other people’s writing, I don’t believe Stephen Covey is multiple centuries in age.) He mentions that among those writings he found that the last 50 years had shifted away from what he calls the character ethic and…
Complaining is a popular hobby. More of a lifestyle, really, but few people seem to recognize this. Even fewer realize how important it is to have the gripe-worthy problems in your life in the first place. Yes indeed. These problems are a gift. This is where we go back to our old friend: gratitude. Which is a requirement when cultivating…
The amount of work that people will avoid in the claim of saving time is nothing short of impressive. It’s not the outright procrastination that I have in mind here – that’s another conversation for another day. But the little bits of work that people will avoid, particularly at the end of a task, truly believing that it’s either earning…
Early this year my car broke down. Finally the repair was too expensive to justify – I had seen this coming for some time. Many months back I realized how much happier I would be without any debt in my life and that I would likely enjoy the hard work it would take to accommodate the lifestyle required for this…
