Motivational speakers frequently promote the idea of imagining one’s Dream Job or ideal circumstance as a means toward actually achieving it. A football coach, for example, may exhort his quarterback to envision himself throwing game-winning touchdown passes or a basketball coach may encourage his players to envision themselves tossing up buzzer-beating shots to win…
“You CAN have it all, just not all at once!” [… and then you do Weight Watchers … ] Oprah Winfrey A participant in a “Lifelong Philosophy” colloquium asked the question: “Where do you get your news?” He had been intrigued to find that Gen X-Y-Z individuals get most or all of their news…
For some time, I’ve wanted to get a more concrete handle on just what “ATTITUDE” is and how it works. For example: What, exactly, does it mean when we hear someone say: “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the…
… again! It’s the perpetual siren call of politicians … or would-be politicians … especially during election years! But I caught myself wondering: Back to WHEN, exactly? … to when all the roads were dirt roads? … to when there was no FDA and one had to rely on snake oil salesmen for pharmaceuticals…
This week’s question is: How are you doing … and compared to who(m) or what? Everything is relative, right? No less than Einstein, his own self, said so! However, what’s dangerous about benchmarking is that we can always identify someone less “special”, less “good”, less worthy, less “balanced”, less intelligent – however nuanced…