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When we started the girls basketball program at a local charter school we had eleven girls come out for the team. That was the good news. The bad news was only three of them had ever played on a basketball team. I knew from prior experience that it takes a long time to develop mostContinue reading “Rebound”

In 1984 I joined Toastmasters International because I was tired of being nervous when giving presentations for my work. Being a member helped me accomplish my goal, but something else happened that changed my life profoundly. A member named Betty gave a different kind of speech. The whole thing was to be read. She usedContinue reading “The Precious Present”

In my last post, Be Days , I mentioned I have rules for helping me spend less time thinking and more time Being. One of them is be present now.  That is the hardest of all the rules. It is natural for me to think about the past, future, or something else that is notContinue reading “Be Vacation”

By reading some of my posts, it’s easy to see I spend a lot of time thinking about things. Being a five on the enneagram, I am always in my head. That has its advantages, but I can easily tie myself into knots.  Years ago my good friend Greg recommended Eckhart Tolle’s book, The PowerContinue reading “Be Days”

When my daughters were little we loved to play the “what if” game. One of our favorite versions was what if you had a superpower. What would it be and why? They had a variety of answers, such as being invisible or super speed. Of course I played too. Mine was often being able toContinue reading “Superpower”

While I was living in a second floor apartment a most annoying mockingbird started a habit of singing in a tree outside my window late at night. It would wake me up, so I would open the window and yell at the bird. It would stop singing for a while, then start up again whenContinue reading “Bird Brain”

One of the best pieces of advice I ever heard regarding less actually being more came from a member of my Toastmasters club. I joined the club to become a better public speaker. He said, “Nobody is as interested in what you have to say as you are in saying it. Always leave them wantedContinue reading “A Brief Case”

In my last post regarding the perception of threats I talked about how thinking less of myself, regarding the Ego, can actually help me become more where it really counts. It’s addition by subtraction. A few days later I heard a Hidden Brain podcast titled Do Less https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/do-less/. It discusses how actually having or doingContinue reading “– = +”

It’s been exactly two years since I made my first blog post. Time for a short review. I started my blog because it was an idea that just wouldn’t go away. A shout out to my friends Jim and Greg for giving me the encouragement I needed to pull the trigger and to my daughterContinue reading “Second Anniversary”

“Watch for snakes.” Those may have been the most common words I heard growing up next to I love you. My dad said them to me every time I got out of the truck to open the main gate to the ranch. Our place was on the Texas coastal plains and considered very snaky. I’veContinue reading “Threats”