Over the Christmas Holiday, I was “in Heaven” as our family all gathered at my house to celebrate. The grandchildren were, of course, the life of the party. After all of the gifts were opened, the festivities moved outside. My two older sons took pride in taking their four-year-old nephew, Jonah’s prized remote controlled Monster Truck and running around the house with it. A chase most certainly commenced and Jonah’s wails of bewilderment followed. Gigi, no doubt, came to the rescue! “You boys leave that baby alone! Give his truck back right now!” Meanwhile, my one-year-old grandson, Carson, had just plotted an ascent up his own personal Mt. Everest. (It…
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How Do You Measure Success?
How do you measure your personal success? Perhaps you are only happy with yourself, if you meet the days quota at work. Success to you might mean making the most money possible in one day. For some occupations, success means arriving back home alive. Students would call an A+ on a test a success. How we measure our own success could potentially be causing us unnecessary daily stress and feelings of failure …even hopelessness. Yet, where does it all start? Each evening we go to bed with a mental checklist of things that we think we NEED to accomplish throughout the next day. Let’s imagine yours looks something like this:…
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Are You In Survival Mode?
Chances are, we work for the most part of our days. Let me repeat, WE SPEND MOST OF OUR DAY WORKING. For those of us that work outside the home, we usually give our most energetic and productive time to our job. This means that our co-workers and supervisors become our extended family. The work that we do becomes the activity we constantly engage in day after day. Therefore, if we work in an environment of negative, ungodly, bossy, and self-righteous people doing something that gives us no personal satisfaction or worth, we are essentially wasting our lives! Unfortunately, we aren’t helping ourselves or anyone else. That’s not really a…
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From The Cradle To The Cross
How prepared is your child for what lies ahead? How well have you trained them for the storms that are sure to come? Recently, I asked kids of varying ages if they could tell me something that their parents had taught them about life. I received the following answers: Be nice, Stay out of trouble, Take up for myself, Don’t do drama, Live life to the fullest because it’s short, Don’t steal, and I really don’t remember. Although the above responses are good ones… except the, “I don’t remember one,” they do very little to give children the survival skills they need to be happy, productive, and successful in life.…
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Life on a Mission
I’m such a procrastinator! How about you? If you’re like me, in order to get something done, it takes an ACT OF CONGRESS! Ummm, my congress hasn’t been working too well lately either. So, I decided that I wanted to be more productive/effective this year. Yes, that is my main goal! I realized that if I wanted to get more things accomplished on a daily basis, I was gonna have to pull out the ol’ teacher grade book. (You’d think I would have thought of this idea a little sooner, since I’m near retirement!) Anyways, I decided to create my own personal gradebook page. On the left are the things…
