The traditional goal setting techniques tend to push your way toward what you want to achieve while the alternative is to have the desired end result pull you toward it. The difference is in your ability to stay motivated and enjoy the journey letting the “how” unfold to you as you progress.

You can’t get there from here?  What on earth do you mean?  Where is ‘here‘?  Where is ‘there’? You have to get ‘there’ from over … ‘there’….. As Einstein said, you cannot resolve a problem with the same mind that created it.  In other words, you cannot get ‘there’ from ‘here’ thinking.  You have to [...]

The Gift of You! What? You say! The gift of ME? Yes, you are a gift to the world.  Most of us don’t think of ourselves that way.  We have been taught to put people in a hierarchy where others based on what they do in life, as greater or lesser than that which we [...]

A great way to set New Year’s Eve resolutions that have a hope of being accomplished! Happy New Year 2011

Why Me, we ask when undesirable circumstances hit?  Why does this happen to me all the time?  These statements trigger our brains to find answers.  Often we conclude, I am not good enough, or I can never be who I want to be or some other negative statement supporting the situation.  These are poor questions, [...]

Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.  I was fortunate enough today to be provided a link to the original article written in the New York Sun paper on September 21, 1897 .  Wow!  113 years ago.  It is interesting that in today’s times, we often get sidetracked and somehow lose sight of the wonders [...]

In Flanders Fields – 21st Century Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, a medical doctor and poet was recognized for his famous poem from World War I.  Perhaps on this day, November 11, 2010, the most recited poem of our time.  As we move into the 21st century, consciousness and the evolution of the human race has [...]

Hallowe’en in retrospect.  Hmmm.  I haven’t participated in the last 4 seasons of the event strictly by nature of the remoteness of our home.  There are no children within the proximity and only a half dozen adults in their autumn of life and so the trick or treat aspect is absent.  I did however, go [...]

Is Daylight Savings a Myth?  I wonder.  How much daylight did you save?  I wasn’t able to capture any for my savings.  While we are now under a new daylight savings schedule which happens  to end next week for this year, the first Sunday in November, the traditional used to happen on the last Sunday [...]

Ah! Fall equinox.  I tend to view it as the midpoint of coming down from a wonderful event(summer,party) where we know that we are unable to as humans, sustain the high for a long period of time.  In the coming down of things, the reflection of joy of the party is what we take away [...]