Love is a circle with three phases. These phases blend into one another seamlessly, around and around again, potentially lifelong, and maybe even beyond. The phases are as the sweeps of a second hand, beginning at 12: first downward, then across, finally upward toward closure – and repetition. For love’s satisfaction, love’s perpetuation, all three […]
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You Are What You Share
You are what you share. Sharing affirms and ushers you into the present, something we need to enter constantly. It is easy to get lost in yesterday’s memories or tomorrow hopes. Yet all that is, is right here and now. But you must risk sharing yourself with others to make accessible the nourishing treasure-trove of […]
The Importance of Memories
Memories of what has been are as important to our health as hopes of what will be. Our memories establish our sense of personal identity. Lose your memory, and you lose your sense of self. This is what happens with amnesiacs: in losing their memory, they forfeit their grasp of who they are, where they […]
How To Gain Control Over Worry
There are things you can do to gain control over worry. I recently heard a psychiatrist detailing what we can do to work through the anxiety and worry so prevalent these last few months. He offered a threefold strategy. He said, 1) Never worry alone, 2) Get the facts, and 3) Make a plan. Never […]
To Hear Does Not Mean to Understand
To hear does not necessarily mean to understand. To gain understanding you have to recognize and distinguish between the speaker’s similarities to and differences from, yourself. To do so you must apply two principles essential for understanding: the principles of similarity and of differentness. The principle of similarity states that nothing in the other is […]
Success As Not Losing Enthusiasm Through Failures
Success is when you can go from one failure to another without losing your enthusiasm. Someone said that in a forgettable movie I recently watched. That really spoke to me. What if personal success were less about results and more about attitude, less about achievement and more about perseverance through failure? That might render more […]
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