The Missing CameraCamping trips to the Kerrville Folk Festival often included a trip to the nearby Medina River. Middle-aged Flower Children congregated there to enjoy the refreshing clear water and surrounding beauty of the Texas Hill Country. We always brought snacks, towels, water and because I love to document the fun I am having in [...]
We all have a vision for the life we would like to live. Sometimes our vision grows dim and we fall short of our dream. How does this occur?1. We allow ourselves to become sidetracked.2. We talk ourselves out of having what we want.3. We allow others to talk us our of our vision.4. Old [...]
"The pessimist complains about the wind, the optimist expects it to change, the realist adjusts the sails." ~ William Arthur WardThere was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn not to judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest, in turn, to go and look at [...]
Have you ever been afraid? It is amazing how our emotions can wreck havoc with us and how we can let fear distort our clarity about reality.Super Storm 2011 had begun on Tuesday, February 1st. Our world here in the Metroplex was covered by sleet and snow. It was bitterly cold. The next morning I [...]
One fall evening I was eating dinner when my friend arrived, tool in hand, to put on my new license plates. I had bought the car that I had been leasing, and new plates had been issued. I was just a few minutes away from finishing my well earned dinner. My friend began to ask [...]
Christmas can be a time of great joy. Christmas can also be a time of great sadness. What causes the difference? Sadness abounds when a person focuses on what they do NOT have. This was brought home to me just this last week.Decorating for Christmas is so much fun for me! I remembered that my [...]
Joy Vanderbeck - Tools For Success (mp3) When you're fully committed to having a solution to a challenge, the universe will work towards that goal. We need to break away from asking 'How?' to solve a challenge. It's not our job to ask how it's going to happen. Our job is to ask 'What?', and [...]
I began to sense that the romantic relationship that I had been involved in was coming to a close. I really didn't want to accept what I knew to be true. One day a beautiful client brought me a piece of paper on which were the wise words of T. D. Jakes. I knew when [...]
Stand at the doorway of your mind and allow only thoughts of that which you desire to experience cross your mental threshold.Just as Pavlov, the father of unconscious conditioned response, trained his dogs to associate the ringing of a bell with the appearance of food, you can train your mind to associate each new day [...]
The Karpman Relationship Drama Triangle is a very common, yet very destructive way of relating. Many of us hop on this triangle without realizing we are doing it.The following story makes the dynamics of the Relationship (Karpman) Drama Triangle easily understood.The woman makes dinner. The alcoholic husband, usually home by six o’clock, does not arrive. [...]