A time to reassess your life.
In George Sheehan’s words: when you are faced with a deadly terminal disease you come to reassess your life. If only we didn’t have to go that far in order to get to that time of reassessment.
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Fine-tuning yourself.
Growing, becoming the person you want to be or finding out who you are is much like fine-tuning a piano. It takes time and learning but you eventually get there.
Read More…Second chances.
Life does offer us second and third chances. The problem is that we’re often too afraid or too comfortable in the known territory to take the leap. New chances to start over, change course, come up everyday and we are the only ones who get in the way, in our own way.
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At the end of the day…
That quiet time at the end of the day when you find yourself alone and can summarize your day, your life. A time when it all comes quiet and your mind is too tired to make excuses. It is at this time that you can sit and look at your life and say: I did […]
Read More…The earthquakes of our lives.
For a long time Martha couldn’t recognize herself. She felt as if an earthquake had shattered the ground she’d once so safely stood on, and now she stumbled and made her way in this uneven territory bumping into walls, and the broken pieces of “life.”
Read More…The ebb and flow.
Life is just like the ebb and flow of waters on a shore. It brings us things, takes them away and brings more back. It all comes and goes. Once we realize this, we become less fearful and more courageous.
Read More…Change: the dread of the unknown.
We like our routines, they ground us, as boring as they might become at some point. They keep our lives neatly balanced. We know what to expect, we know the territory. Suddenly change springs and throws us off kilter. Some of us dread change because of the unknown territory and feel disoriented when our neat […]
Read More…Your canvas, your life.
Life is an empty canvas we paint as we go. Some of us are better painters than others, yet we still have to get on with the picture. We choose the landscape to set the images, the colors, the storms, the wreckage. We can improve the picture or just let it be and […]
Read More…Those ugly places
There are places I’d rather not go back to because a sour experience has stained them. Those places that were once beautiful have been tarnished by circumstances which have ruined the filter with which I saw them.
Read More…Let go of your routine and enjoy the unexpected!
Three years ago I felt empty and bored to death. Although I was passionately teaching, I lacked a personal fulfilling life. I had a very strict and fixed routine. I did my grocery shopping at 8 A.M. every Friday, cleaned, did the laundry, cooked and read. The rest of the week I stuck to a strict schedule.
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