S:1485 Principle: Enable
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) Enabling gets a bad rap. Usually because we think of someone enabling the unuseful behavior of another. Addictions and such. But consider what happens when you enable someone’s growth. When you see an attribute of theirs that they can’t […]
S:1479 Principle: Dealing With Emergencies
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) Talking with a seatmate during a recent airplane trip we discussed his history which included years as a paramedic. A phrase just slipped out of him about how he stayed calm and focused in intense situations. Each event he […]
S:1477 Principle: Growth
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) As for me I love to learn and grow. It is stimulating, motivating, energizing. While occasionally it is simply growth for growth’s sake most of the time it is growth for a purpose. I want to learn and grow […]
S:1474 Principle: Your Music
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) We need your music. You are as a note. A whole note,in a subtle chord,in a minor key,in a major score. Without your note the symphony of life is less. You are at once infinitesimally small and of the […]
S:1470 Principle: Float
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) One does not drown by falling into water. Even deep and dark water. One drowns by staying under water. Life comes in waves. Sometimes exhilarating. Other times terrifying. One cannot control the waves; that’s not our job. When our […]
S:1468 Principle: Lifestyle Learning Curves
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) Changes occur throughout life. Newly retired? Newly widowed? Moved to a new town? A new country? Sudden wealth increase? Decrease? Age-related physical changes? “Changes in latitudes, Changes in attitudes” so the song says. Big changes can and typically do […]
S:1466 Principle: The Burn Pile
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) Trees are a visual of the life cycle – they emerge, grow to maturity, and die. Each in their own time and way. Along the way they naturally drop leaves and limbs. This material is known as dead-fall. Left […]
S:1459 Principle: Extraordinary
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) Petrichor: The smell of fresh rain on dry earth. (Yes, I had to look it up.) The smell bursts from the sudden interaction of dry, parched earth with fresh raindrops. It doesn’t last long. After a few moments, the […]
S:1458 Principle: Pain
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) Pain is a story. Pain has physical components as well as mental and emotional ones, but at its core pain is a story intended to get our attention. This first came to me in yoga class during a pose […]
S:1451 Principle: Not Your Problem
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) Solving problems can be fun. Discerning the issue(s), defining desirable outcomes, recalling previous similar situations, gathering resources, taking actions, and achieving a victory. Whoopee! Another problem solved. But then there are those times when it’s Not Your Problem:You didn’t […]
