THE PLACE YOUR LOVE CALLS HOME
I love where I live. If you follow my tweets @IMPaulWilliams you’ve probably noticed the excessive use of boat and bay photos to illustrate my messages. I love living by the water. My morning runs when I’m back on the left coast are a symphony of snapping iPhone photos and songs of the sea. Though home is not an address. Home is not a zip code or a neighborhood Don’t get me wrong. I love the house I live in… Read More
WHERE ARE YOU UNHAPPY?
When we go to the doctor they always ask “Where does it hurt?” But unless you go to a psychologist or therapist of some sort, people don’t tend to ask you “where are you unhappy?” I don’t mean this in terms of a place. Like I hate the beach. Or I get depressed in dark museums. I’m miserable at my in-laws. It’s the question we need to constantly ask ourselves about our lives. Where are we unhappy? Is it with… Read More
KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE DONUT AND NOT UPON THE HOLE
When my daughter, Nava, was diagnosed with neurological disabilities 30 years ago, I grieved my heart out with anger, bitterness, resentment and total sadness. The dream and hope of that perfect baby was shattered. My child would have life-long disabilities, the extent of which would be revealed with time. Along with all the therapies in which I engaged my daughter, I threw myself into my own therapeutic journey with the hope of pulling myself out of my hole of despair.… Read More
INSTA – FIX
Mistakes. We all make them. Big and little. Major and minor. They’re a part of life, especially these days. With all of us moving at the mind-boggling speeds provided by the net, mishaps are almost guaranteed. Ranging from a thoughtless remark to a real tsunami of nasty we all lose it once in a while. For the most part the hurt we’re distributing is unintentional. I think many of us have experienced that heart stopping moment when, after jotting down… Read More
PLAY YOUR GAME BETTER
Do you find it interesting how so often when you least expect to hear something inspirational it comes to you from the least likely of places? And more often than not it zips in at exactly the right time. You gotta love the universe. And when did I start sounding like Paul? Yesterday after a long day of work I threw my tired body into a taxi. All I wanted was a little quiet until I got home and… Read More
CURRENT EVENTS
Gratitude is the bulldozer that levels the mountain that once was a molehill. I love charts that identify the various parts of your brain. Love knowing I have all that fabulous equipment up there between the ears. Factory equipped. I came that way. Some charts even attempt to explain what does what. I’m not sure which part does the things that get the most unwanted attention from me. That nasty little voice whose only job is to scare the crap… Read More
RECYCLED, REDUCED AND REUSED
We all go through challenges in life that make us feel like we’re being put through the wringer or that we’re being processed. Some of us are a bit more graceful than others and can get through the experience a lot faster. Since we’re all environmentally concerned I found the best way to describe one of the challenges in my life is by using “The Triple R” which is recycling, reducing and reusing. For something to be RECYCLED means… Read More
CHANGING LIFE LANES
I know today is affirmation day, but we are kind of getting our blogging legs here and sometimes there will be things that we post just because they are so awesome or relevant or uplifting they need to be shared right away. I just watched a really important video of a lecture given by the philosopher Roman Krznaric. “Roman Krznaric is a cultural thinker and writer on the art of living. He is a founding faculty member of The School of Life in… Read More
HUNGER ROAD
There’s a great song written and recorded by Robert Mitchum called “Thunder Road”. Yes, I know, there’s another with the same title by Bruce Springsteen. But, I’m going back a little farther. 1958! Mitchum starred in the film, playing a veteran who returns from the war in Korea to help run the family’s illegal booze business. A fast driving moonshine runner he’s lawless but with high moral fiber! Committed to doing the right thing. Even if doing it might land him… Read More
GRATITUDE AND GLAMOUR
Normally today would be day when we do affirmations sent in by one of you. But this is Paul Williams an my site and this week Paul opened here in New York at the Cafe Carlyle. Very rarely I will do double posting, which means I will post the same blog on my site TraceyJacksononline.com and here. Today is one of those days as I thought all of you might like to see Paul’s opening night and the blog… Read More