The Life You’re Living
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living? – Bob Marley
Well . . . ?
Are you satisfied?
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape. – Charles Dickens Everything we experience has the potential to be a learning and growing experience. It is up to…
We are like the little branch that quivers during a storm, doubting our strength and forgetting we are the tree—deeply rooted to withstand all life’s upheavals. – Dodinsky When the winds of change and challenge blow, remember you are the tree. The strong, flexible tree, able to bend and not break, to both sway with…
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves. – Mahatma Gandhi So many people despair of what is happening in/with/to the World/Earth. And with good reason. There is cause to…
The lessons we need to learn, the lessons we must learn, will – invariably – keep showing up until we learn them. Case-in-point: my current desire to shed weight, become lighter and live my Ideal Weight. I am happy to say that I am making progress. I am shedding weight because my behavior has changed. My behavior has…
One way to understand coaching is that it brings awareness, intelligence and wisdom to your life. Specifically, it does that to your goals, plans – and depending on the client’s willingness to experiment with new practices – actions. So many people go through life reacting to “what comes up” with whatever awareness, intelligence and wisdom is available…
Here’s a short, but oh so sweet, post from Seth Godin: Hope and expectation Hope is fuel, it moves us forward and it amplifies our best work. Expectation is the killer of joy, the shortest route to disappointment. When we expect that something will happen, we can’t help but be let down… * * *…