Thanksgiving was this week. My little family sat around the table thinking of all our favorite Thanksgiving days. Paul and I remembered Thanksgiving of ’90, when we left Spokane for Germany. I remember my sister Susan, getting up early to join my parents in seeing us off at the airport. We had a 24 hour […]
It has been said that struggling people often focus on their problems, while successful people focus on the solutions. I totally believe this. You could also say it this way, “You can either choose to focus on the problem, or on the promise.” A shortcoming of most people, is they are unaware of many promises. […]
Are you a goal-oriented person? I used to be. When I was a young, idealistic teenager, I wrote my goals regarding every topic in my life. I was very specific about what I wanted, and I usually got it. My closest friends were also high achievers, and they spured me on towards my goals. Then […]
If you are striving but not finding the success that you desire, then chances are you have internal conflict about the issue. It is not easy to change yourself out of sheer will power. You need to instead, face the conflicting emotions and get into a place of internal congruency. That is when you achieve […]
Well, it is one of those weeks when friends and neighbors go on vacation, and my children go off to enrichment programs…all my children that is, except the oldest one. For some reason Jordan is usually the busiest of the four, but he has no baseball this week, (and no nifty “enrichment flyers” came home […]