I am blatantly stealing this story from an e-mail that I received from a Facebook friend. I love the insight.
A Lesson Learnt From My Six Year Old by Nicolle Kopping-Pavars
On Saturday mornings, my family and I stay in bed just a little bit longer. My two boys crawl into bed with my husband and I [...]
I am still on my poetry bent:
I followed happiness to make her mine,
Past towering oak and swinging ivy vine.
She fled, I chased, over slanting hill and dale,
Pursuing rapidly over dashing stream.
I scaled the dizzy cliffs where eagles scream;
I traversed swiftly every land and mountain.
But always happiness eluded me.
Exhausted, fainting, I pursued no more,
But sank to [...]
My garden was calling me today.
The sun came out after 2 days of hard rain.
I spent the two days purging paper and found an old friend, a poem by Bliss Carman:
Where is Heaven? Is it not
Just a friendly garden plot,
Walled with stone and roofed with sun,
Where the days pass one by one
Not too fast and [...]
Two events happened in my life that reminded me that we can not escape sadness.
What I have learned is that we should not be afraid of it, though. Disappointment and sorrow, at one time or another, will come to each of us. This sorrow is a gentle teacher. Emerson reminds us that
“All loss, all gain, [...]
You never know where you are going to find a great example of creativity.
I wonder about all the time my kid’s spend watching YouTube videos. Maybe it can enhance their creativity.
As Kevin Kelly of Lifestream says (where I found this video):
The internet is the world’s greatest waster of time, and that is its chief benefit [...]
I got an new desk recently and my husband noticed that I have expanded the work around me to fill the space. One of the things that I am doing is bringing more books into my space.
These are the books that I can see on my desk:
Change Your Life Without Getting Out of Bed by [...]
I asked a client what her biggest challenge now was, with a new baby and an entrepreneurial career. She said time.
I am often asked how I manage time with 3 busy kids, a self-employed husband and my own busy coaching business. I thought about what I could say different about time management, that hadn’t already been said [...]
I keep being brought back to a lecture that I read by Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay called “What Is Worthwhile.” Ms. Lindsay was the first female Ph.D. graduate from the University of Pennsylvania and she spoke to a graduating class in 1894.
In her lecture, she suggests that one of the things that is worthwhile to take [...]
I was reading “My Stroke of Insight” by Jill Bolte Taylor and I watched Oprah interview her on Oprah’s Soul Series, and I was struck by a word. JUST. You “just” have to change your thoughts and your life will change. Peace is inside you all the time. You “just” have to quiet your mind [...]
