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As I said in my prior post, Sitting, I was raised to look on the bright side of things and be optimistic. However, in his wonderful book, How To Stop Worrying And Start Living Dale Carnegie recommends a magic three step formula he learned from Willis H. Carrier, which seems to advise the opposite ofContinue reading “The Magic Formula”

I grew up in a wonderful family. My parents were supportive and positive. They lived the ideal that people are as happy as they want to be. I adopted that philosophy. I tried to look at the bright side of things and for the most part that worked. However, there were a few times aContinue reading “Sitting”

My last post talked about how important boxing out is in rebounding. Box Out I become an obstacle to the other team getting the rebound. However, if they box out also then I have an obstacle in my way. The best way to get around that obstacle is to lean into them, then I canContinue reading “SOFO”

In my prior post I talked about the importance of rebounding. Rebound The absolute most important thing in rebounding well is to box out your opponent. That means when the shot goes up you get between the other player and the basket so they can’t get to the rebound. It is the foundation of goodContinue reading “Box Out”

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”