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There I Am Again
Often, one of the consequences of a heart attack is a low-fat diet. This has proven true in my household. As a result of actually following his doctors’ orders, my husband has lost 15+ pounds. To give him full credit, it was 17.5 pounds in four weeks. Now you might think I would be delighted in his progress. It’s a logical assumption. And I am truly grateful he has taken his recovery program to heart (as it were). But over the last few weeks, as the pounds continued to drop off, I began to get irritated. There is a part of me that liked being the leaner one in the relationship. Almost as…
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No Complaints
“Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won’t make us happier.” –Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture Nobody likes a whiner. Consider this…most, if not all, of the situations in your life you have had the privilege of creating. Your environs–home and work, the relationships in your life, and even the nature of those relationships are the direct or indirect results of your choices. You’re the chooser. It’s a powerful thing to look around your life and acknowledge that you chose it. At the very least, we choose our response to our situations…if not the situations themselves. Whining for…
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Partners
She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people… -Nicholas Sparks Accountability partners are a relatively new invention. At least, that term for them is. The concept is not new. People have benefitted from the mutual commitment to assist one another in achieving their goals for as long as there have been people with goals. Nonetheless, the concept has come into vogue in the last couple decades. Business magazines, health journals, and religious publications all tout the benefits of having an accountability partner. There are even phone apps for the less socially inclined. It’s an interesting…
