Category: Decision making
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Advocating
It seems to me that, right now, we live in a world in which we are constantly having to advocate for ourselves and others, just to get things done. It used to be, at least in my memory, that if you entrusted someone to do or produce or create something, they just about always did…
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Breaking Eggs
So often, we go through life making choices and decisions, acting and reacting automatically. We don’t stop to think about why we do what we do or where it comes from. We are who we are and this is what is natural to us and for us. We may not see it as relevant to…
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Taking A Moment
It’s a funny thing how much of life we spend on auto pilot, auto movement, going through the motions. Even when we try to slow down we often do it by immersing ourselves in something, from reading to watching television, that perpetuates that state of absorption rather than reflection. This week I was busy with…
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Perspective
I did a workshop exercise this week where we had to assign a number to each of a variety of key facets of our life. The numbering scale was 1 to 10 and the categories included relationships, career, money, health and the like. I, methodical soul that I sometimes am, thought initially that I had…
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The Gift of Echoes
I have always recognized the parts of me that clearly reflect my father, his personality and his traits. Like him, I am a perfectionist. Like him, I can perseverate over any and all things and let worry surround me like a cloud. I know that he had good qualities as well but it is the…
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Transitions
If there is any constant in life, it is change. So often I have lulled myself into thinking that tomorrow will be just a continuation of the day before, that people and situations and circumstances will all be the same. Yet, the truth is that no day is the same as the one that preceded…
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Leading with Gratitude
There’s a question that has been rattling around in my brain for the last few days. Maybe you want to try it as well. Here goes: what if you woke up tomorrow and all that you had is that for which you are grateful today? On the surface, it sounds like a simple question but…
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Where is Stillness?
Label it however you choose, but I have come to accept that I am a person who is never fully at rest, never fully at peace. My entire childhood was spent with my mother asking me to please be still, to sit down, to stop flitting around. My father used to say “Take a breath”…
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A State of Grace
There are moments when I see reflections of my parents in me as there are moments when I see reflections of their father and me in my own children. It’s interesting that the characteristics I see in myself, and identify as coming from one of my parents, are usually the ones I would label as…
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One Speed
Since childhood, in truth I suspect since birth, I have been one of those people who only has one speed. Acceleration happens fast and deceleration doesn’t happen. It never has. I am happiest in motion, mentally and physically, and find it hard—if not impossible—to settle down in any respect. My mother’s most oft-repeated expression to…
With a Full Heart 