Decisions. Life is quite literally jam-packed with them. We make them all of the time; literally one after another after another. Hardly a single minute passes where we’re not thinking through and making some sort of decision. Some decisions are huge and sweeping, amply possessing both the power and scope to impact our lives for the rest of our … [Read more...]

An unknown author wrote, “Real treasure lies not in what that can be seen, but what cannot be seen.”  We possess this strangely cockeyed perception that we must be able to see something in order to treasure it.  More than that, we think that we have to be able to somehow hold it in our hands.  And then, in far too many cases we think we have to be … [Read more...]

What is the nature of our mentality anyway?  We are a complex collection of experiences, wounds, failures, successes, relationships, genetics and a wholly innumerable array of other things that press together and then settle into some sort of uniquely amalgamated compilation that makes us, us.  The nature of these things and the manner in which … [Read more...]

A conscience is that pressing sense that unerringly guides our choices and pricks us when we don’t heed it’s prompting.  It’s that mysteriously universal compass that relentlessly points true north when we don’t have any idea where true north is, or when prefer to take some other direction altogether out of a sense of convenience or selfishness or … [Read more...]

Isaac Newton's Third Law states that “for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.”  Or more simply put for the lay-people among us, there’s a consequence to the stuff that we do.  We all know that.  Norman Cousins wrote that “a human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his … [Read more...]

We live in a world spiraling in a confounding kaleidoscopic of shoddy opinions, self-serving biases, vacillating cultural mandates, clarion calls for whatever politically-correct notion might be trending at the moment, and the elusive lure of all things vogue and trendy.  We’re frantically chasing some perpetually shifting norm that’s nothing of a … [Read more...]

Too often we are repetitively reactionary and little more.  Life becomes something more of obligatory duty rather than gifted privilege.  Our days become stale, methodical routines that hammer out another empty twenty-four hours on the incessant assembly line of our lives, rather than being an astonishing adventure that could peel off in … [Read more...]

We get attacked.  That’s a reality of life.  Somewhere, at some time, someone is going to come after us.  We’ve going to get cut, clobbered or end up with an assorted collection of contusions.  Sometimes the intentions of those that hurt us are misdirected, and at other times they’re completely intentional.  Sometimes the actions of others are the … [Read more...]

Some of us have very vivid imaginations.  We can effortlessly conjure up an endless litany of wildly creative concepts, mind-bending visions, and far-reaching theories that can eclipse the very imagination from which they were birthed.  We can be ingenious beyond the limits of our own ingenuity.  At times we find our own creations electrifying, but … [Read more...]

The issue in life is not how many times we get knocked down.  The issue in life is how many times we get back up.  And it’s not all that difficult to figure out that if the amount of times we get up is just one less than the amount of times that we’ve been knocked down, then we’re spending our lives lying down.  Life will knock us down; … [Read more...]