What Is Your Relationship To Your Potential?

What’s your potential?  Are you living up to it?  How do you know when you are or you aren’t?  What can you do about it . . . either way? Do you use your potential only as a means of motivating you, or have you used it in the past as a way of punishing […]

Is There Such A Thing As “Negative Serendipity”?

Please see my P.S. to explain my recent travels as well as my heartfelt thanks to my great friend, Keith Ferrell, for hosting Study Hall for the last six days. Now, on to serendipity: It seems as though “positive serendipity” gets all the attention. Even plain old serendipity is sufficiently controversial, but what about “negative […]

“Decide” Implies A Cutting Away

The word “decide” has much in common with words like “homicide” or “fratricide.” A literal interpretation of the word “decide” connotes a cutting – a powerful image in the context of making a decision. The power of decision making can be so strong as to cut away all other alternatives – never to be able […]

The Active Cultivation of First Times As A Means of Renewal

Renewal can result in feelings of optimism and expanded energy if we process information as though we are experiencing something for the first time. I’m a big fan of first times, and I actively cultivate memories of wonderful first times in my life. They are full of joy and possibility. To experience people, situations, places […]

Hope Is A Verb

There is a store near my home that has in its display windows in letters six-feet high: “HOPE IS A VERB.” Those words caused me to look up “hope” as a verb – and it appears to me to be the intersection of expecting, wishing and being optimistic. Clearly, “hope as a verb” implies action. […]