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Captivating
Share your beauty. My love thinks I’m beautiful. I wish I knew how to convey how phenomenal that is, that he thinks so and tells me so often. He tells me so, all the time, at all states of disheveled bumming at home, to polished and ready for work. What makes this so phenomenal is that I had always hoped I was. I believe parts of me are very beautiful, but that’s not an adjective I’d use to describe myself. He says it like he’s trying to tell me its Tuesday on Tuesday. That I just am. As I am. My reluctance to understand that he can see my beauty…
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You & I
I: my least favorite word Yep. I started a blog that’s basically me prattling on about things I’ve read and learned, but reading about what “I” think slows my roll every time I edit. I’m pushing through that, deliberately. “The more I learn, the less I know, and the more it makes me wonder” is something I say to myself nearly every day. The more I learn, the more I know how much more there is to learn. It’s very humbling. But I also know that in all of the learning that I’ve been doing, I might have stumbled upon little helpful nuggets that could help someone else. That’s the…
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Planning
Plans don’t survive first contact. Failing to plan is planning to fail. So… damned if you do, but damned if you don’t? Definitely not! The time you take to outline a plan creates new neuron pathways for your brain. You give the brain a good workout and are in mentally better shape for having flexed your grey matter. Having spent that time and space exploring options also leaves you with a little bit more clarity than you would otherwise have–what is it you’re trying to do, and how? When you plan, you outline a scenario with and endstate. You compare and contrast your goals, options, and outcomes, and begin to…
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Journey
Last night, I got back from an impromptu vacation. I really needed the time out to sit and be a bum and read all week, while enjoying wonderful dinners every night with the love of my life. For as much as I try not to complain, compare, or compete (a solid gem from a very clever friend!), all I could do was grit my teeth at work, and complain to my love at night about how out of control things had become at the office. Absenteeism, poor attitudes, and bosses changing their minds faster than the headlines do… I was inundated with things I couldn’t control, and things I couldn’t…