When I was a teenager, I remember how my dad would trust me. Say I was sixteen and I was complaining about how my dad didn’t trust me (a common thing for sixteen-year-olds). Dad’s respond would often be, “O but son, I do trust you, I trust you to be sixteen.” I never came up … Continue reading
Category Archives: The ONE THING for today
Hide your feelings
Ignoring your negative feelings and hiding them are not the same. By all means acknowledge your hurts, fears, and frustrations, but you don’t have to notify the world. The way you feel about something or someone today may be far different this time next year or even this time tomorrow. Settle for doing the right … Continue reading
Be careful with those rules!
A few rules are necessary, but they are extremely dangerous and must only be referred to or added to as a last resort. It’s important to realize what you’re doing when you invoke a rule that must be obeyed and observed: First, you are taking away all other choices for how something can be done, … Continue reading
Don't know what you're doing?
The question is not, “Do you know what you’re doing?” The question must always be, “Am I heading in the right direction?” Don’t let the great ones fool you. If they’re honest they’ll admit that much of the time they didn’t know what they were doing…but they did know where they wanted to go. They … Continue reading
When we get serious
A tell-tale sign that we are taking ourselves to seriously is our impatience. Picture this, we become snappy with the sale’s clerk because we had to wait in line. Really? Another sign is when we become offended easily. Picture this, we get offended when someone in front of us is driving too slowly (according to … Continue reading
Go for boring
Boredom provides one of the greatest opportunities in life. Philosopher Søren Kierkegaard described boredom as one of the greatest change-agents known to man, not because we are attracted to it, but because we are repulsed by it. And therein lies your opportunity. Find the most sleepy little corner around you and breathe life into it. … Continue reading
The one other thing
Most people give “the one other thing” very little thought. It may the college student who is actively involved in getting their degree but who also hopes to get married someday. It may be a star employee who is highly respected and successful but who also can see themselves actually running the company (or their … Continue reading
