Day Dreaming What shape is your imagination in? You’re in the third grade and you stare out the window at the empty playground, paved with blacktop. You can see the slide and the swings, motionless, and as if math weren’t boring enough, the playground just looks dead. As you descend into a reality, the one…

Holding Back Gets You… Why Hold Back? Does Fear Drive Your Life?

Not Half-assed It’s guru time. The guru has arrived. He speaks. Welcome! It is great to be seen by you today and for you to see one another. My life was half-assed. I did just enough to get by. Sometimes I did less than enough and then still got by. We like to say we…

“The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.” Are we conforming to the math, or is the math conforming to us? Seeking truth and seeking truth which applies to your own life, or which can apply to life, are not the same things.  Is the shortest distance between two points a straight line? …

What Is Confidence? Confidence is the belief that you can do something well. How well?  As good as it needs to be at the time it is done. Confidence is a belief.  Confidence is having faith. High confidence is certainty, the certainty that you can do something specific. Do what? Knowing that you can do…

Planifestation Is The Key “Who makes that window on your drawing?” so said my father early on in my design career. He looked at the front elevation drawing I had done of the store building, a single story Colonial style, and asked the above question. The demeanor of an engineer, architect, naval officer, boss, and…

Elation A new project is in and the check is in hand and I’m ready to go to deposit it in the bank. The meetings went well. The clients are friendly and practical and they know what they want. Arghhh ! ! ! The elation is replaced with the reality of the project and the…

Stopped? You’re the driver of the vehicle that you call your life. The accelerator pedal and the gas pedal are controlled by you, for the most part. Yes, if you come to a traffic light that is red, you stop. The light doesn’t stay red unless it is broken. Is the light broken? Is something…

How’s the balance in your life?  Is there supposed to be a balance in life?  What is “life balance”?  People talk about having a balance in life.  Being dizzy definitely isn’t comfortable, so balance makes sense.   You don’t want to be all work and no play.  That might make your hair gray. What is a…

Why is it a journey? Because, it leads you to your goal, the place where your new life is there waiting for you to live it. It’s the one you have been ignoring or neglecting, despite your knowing that your happiness is directly connected to it. Like on any other journey, you have to know…