• Thoughtful thoughts

    Facing the unknown…

    Three of the hardest things I have found to deal with in life are: Accepting the fact that if you are having a problem or a challenge in life, your challenge is no different, not harder nor easier than anyone else’s. Learning how to tell when you are being challenged or when you are facing a problem. Learning to forgive yourself when you screw up. Some of these points might be kind of hard to understand unless you consider the kinds of problems I am speaking about. Point One: I’m not speaking about comparing a challenge at work, to facing Cancer, or an annoying co-worker, to having your home foreclosed.…

  • Random Thoughts

    Turtles can’t walk backwards…

    When my kids were younger, I used this as a inspirational phrase when they were down or discouraged. The point was that turtles may walk kind of slow, but they always keep moving forward; they never turn back and give up the fight. It worked when they were younger… Good thing Google was not so prevalent back then because they would have been able to quickly find out, like I did, that turtles can in fact walk backwards.   …Oh well, it was a good thought at the time!