All of our lives are rich with potential sources of happiness, but we can easily become victims of negative thinking if we are not paying attention. This can happen for many reasons… maybe we believe that by focusing on all that has going wrong will provide us with the motivation we need to face the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Fear’
Choosing Happiness…
Posted in Acceptance, Happiness, tagged Awareness, Fear, Habits, Happiness, Inspiration, Mineapolis on April 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Those Three Words…
Posted in Cancer, tagged Cancer, Fear, Mineapolis, Pausch, Personal Growth, Spirituality on March 8, 2009 | 6 Comments »
For many people, there are three words that evoke great fear, stress and devastation: “You have cancer” I have been asked many times by people I know and some I barely know, to talk and write about my cancer diagnosis, the treatment and my recovery experiences. As you can imagine the whole experience has been [...]
Inspiring Creativity…
Posted in Happiness, On Purpose, tagged Awareness, Creativity, Fear, Happiness, Mineapolis on March 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Having just posted some of my creative works to this blog (see tabs above) I thought I would end the week by writing about inspiration, the creative process and risk taking. So even if you find my paintings and photography uninteresting, my hope is that you may just find them inspiring enough to re-awaken your [...]
Your Inner Voice of Wisdom…
Posted in Habits, Inspiration, tagged Awareness, Fear, Inspiration, Mineapolis, Spirituality, Trust on March 5, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Have you noticed that if you want to speak to someone in a noisy, crowded room, the best thing to do is lean close and whisper? Yelling in an attempt to be louder than the room’s noise just adds to the chaos. Similarly, that quiet, small voice within each of us does not try to [...]
Healing From Loss…
Posted in Personal Growth, tagged Fear, Mineapolis, Personal Growth on February 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Its a deeply sad part of life, but loss happens to all of us and when it does, it can wash over us like a heavy gray rain. When experiencing a big loss, we often feel saturated with grief, and the overflow can spill into your physical body. Loss becomes a physical emptiness, and the [...]
The Creative Power of Spirit…
Posted in Personal Growth, tagged Fear, Habits, Inspiration, Mineapolis, Spirituality, Trust on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We all have defense mechanisms that we’ve developed over time, often without even being aware of it. In times of discord, the behaviors that have worked to get us past challenges with the least amount of pain are the ones that we tend to repeat; even if part of us knows they no longer work. [...]
Climbing Brick Walls…
Posted in Goals, tagged Fear, Inspiration, Mineapolis, Pausch, Personal Growth, The Path on February 3, 2009 | 4 Comments »
A few weeks ago I realized that I was feeling stuck in the process of pursuing one of my personal goals. I felt like all my efforts had ended up in vein and lately I have begun to feel like giving up. My thoughts of giving up seemed to subside when I began to recall [...]
To Be, or Not To Be…
Posted in Personal Growth, tagged Fear, Mineapolis, Personal Growth, The Path, Trust on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes of our goals and dreams come to fruition so easily that it is as if an invisible hand has done much of the work for us. When this happens, it feels like it must have been meant to be. On the other hand, when dreams and goals require a tremendous amount of effort, we [...]
The Art of Happiness…
Posted in Book Review, tagged Dalai Lama, Fear, Happiness, Mineapolis, Personal Growth, Spirituality, The Path on January 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I just finished re-reading one of my favorite books “The Art of Happiness”, which is based on a series of interviews and lectures by the Dalai Lama. The book draws upon over 2500 years of Buddhist wisdom, combined with the latest findings of modern science, and mixed with a healthy dose of common sense. It [...]
Between You and Fulfillment…
Posted in On Purpose, tagged Fear, Happiness, Inspiration, Mineapolis on January 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The time we have on this planet is limited and tends to go by very fast. Consequently, how we spend our time is one of the most important decisions we make every day. Yet it is often far too common to put off until tomorrow the very things that we are dreaming of today. The [...]
On Accepting Truth…
Posted in Truth, tagged Fear, Mineapolis, Personal Growth, Trust on January 23, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I think that most of us have had the experience of being in possession of a piece of truth that we were afraid to share because we knew it would not be well received. However, there are also instances in which we may have been unable to handle some truth directly confronting us. This might [...]
Without A Net…
Posted in Personal Growth, tagged Fear, Inspiration, Mineapolis, Personal Growth, The Path, Trust on January 22, 2009 | 5 Comments »
As we continue to grow and discover our individual personal paths, we often reach a crossroads where our choices involve the risk of facing the unknown, versus the safety of all that we have come to know and trust. We may feel like a tightrope walker teetering along the narrow path to our goals, sometimes [...]
In Memory of Randy Pausch…
Posted in Inspiration, tagged Fear, Inspiration, Karma, Mineapolis, Pausch on January 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something… because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.” – Randy Pausch “It’s not [...]
