Today let’s talk about helping others. Have you ever felt like you just weren’t being useful? That your problems were so overwhelming that they became your whole world?
Archives for May 2012
Practical Everyday Dog Training
We have a saying in our home, “Train it or manage it.” When it comes to dealing with our dog’s behaviour, it seems there are really only two choices. We can either train our dogs to do things in a way that we like or we can manage their situation so that they don’t have the opportunity to do things we don’t. It’s a practical decision.
The Winds of Change
Most of us like to be in complete control of our lives. Embracing change is extremely difficult because with it comes letting go of the old and allowing yourself to feel lost for a while.
Minute to Freedom #27: Willingness
Today let’s talk about willingness. Have you ever felt like you just didn’t want to look at the problems that were plaguing your life?
What’s Your Alter Ego?
I want to agitate some thoughts around the idea that all of us have an alter ego, that is, all of us take on different personalities in the machinations of our day to day lives around the way we behave and react to influence what people think of us and think about us.
Blind Ambition
Reading Annie Dillard’s “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek” and “The Writing Life” have been epiphanies and deep hard lessons in the way of words. There have also been eye opening revelations of how little we really see through these two eyes of ours.
Holy Peachy Guacamole!
My favorite thing about southern California is not celebrities, or the weather, nor is it surfer boys, skateboard dogs, or even Urth’s sustainable shade-grown organic fair-trade coffee. No, my absolute favorite thing about southern California is the magnificent avocado. Creamy … dreamy … avocados!
Failing
How do we deal with people who are addicted? I see the effects of addiction around me daily. Sometimes it’s the lethargy and apathy of chronic pot smokers. Sometimes it’s the erratic, unpredictable behavior of drinkers and sometimes it’s the empty hollow zombie look of someone who’s smoking crack. While they present differently, they all have costs.
Books of Life
Electronic publishing is a great boon to certain sections of the publishing industry, and to the public. Catalogs and telephone directories need constant updating. Real-time text-based news feeds with internal links put a wealth of information at a person’s fingertips. Specialized articles generated outside of Academe, which would even a few decades ago have remained in manuscript, unread and unnoticed, can reach a wide audience through the Internet.
There are problems, however, with relying on an essentially ephemeral medium to be the repository of timeless knowledge.
Minute to Freedom #26: Being Self Critical
Today let’s talk about being self critical. Has it ever felt like you were being too critical of yourself? That whatever you did, it wasn’t good enough?