Our communication is filled with ambiguous sentences; sentences that are open to more than one interpretation or not having one obvious meaning. For instance, you might say, “Look at the dog with one eye.” Did you mean that the dog only has one eye or that the viewer should close one eye then look at …
Have you ever been asked to do something one way, but you decided to do it another? In college I had a track coach who was an All-American a few years earlier in the event he was coaching me in. He wanted me and a teammate to train a certain way, push ourselves with extremely …
I think you will agree that living in the world today is not for the faint of heart. While you have family and friends to love and protect you, there is also an endless supply of enemies ready to trip you up; to use language of today, to “eat you alive.” Those enemies, they are …
We are creatures of habit. Habits help us through our day. We can do a similar task without having to be fully engaged in that habit easier than when we are doing something “out of the norm.” Think about your morning routine. What are the things you do every morning? Is it a well-rehearsed routine …
You are an understudy in your school’s musical while playing a small non-speaking role, sort of lost in the ensemble. Suddenly, the day before the opening night, the lead actor comes down with laryngitis, and you step in and “steal the show.” Years later, you look back on that “perfect timing” moment as the launching …
Prelude: I am talking to myself in this writing. If you would like to listen in, keep reading. Maybe it will be of some encouragement to you as well. I don’t know about you, but from my vantage point, the world is spinning faster and faster. Dizzyingly fast. At times, it is hard to hold …