Gratitude and Trust: Six Affirmations That Will Change Your Life

Boundaries, Character, Ego, Family

Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children’s most primitive fears.

Character, Clarity, Discovery, Ego

It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

Ego, Letting Go, Mindfulness

Other people can’t cause us to be impatient unless we let them do so. In other words, others don’t make us impatient. We make ourselves impatient, through our expectations and demands, fixated attachments and stuckness.

Addictions, Ego, Self-Desruction, Self-Worth, Truth

DON’T LET YOUR EGO DRIVE THE BUS

The news isn’t bad enough these days. We are faced with ISIS burning innocent people alive and chopping off heads like it was the 15th Century, only now they get to immediately upload images to You Tube, for that 21st Century dopamine rush of cyber induced instant gratification. We have Russia falling, currencies crumbling, daily genocide in Africa, and other parts of the world, and then the usual abject poverty, murder and mayhem that is sadly part of life. And then…then… Read More

Ego, Fear

I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And living an un – self-examined fear based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance.

Ego, Giving Back, The Right Stuff

If you want to call attention to your good deed then it isn’t a good deed, it’s a self-serving one. Why? Not only have you patted yourself on the back but you’re fishing for others to do the same.

Ego, Love

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

Ego, Gratitude, Living Fully, Mindfulness

THE ILLUSION OF TOP BANANA

I’m making up a new word.  Dis-attractive.  It’s to describe the highly addictive cyber candy right there at our fingertips every day.   You can open up your browser and lose yourself in the maze of information, gossip, shocking celebrity behavior, fashion disasters or conspiracy theories.  It’s Alice down the rabbit hole of “Search”.   It’s an easy place to miss-place huge hunks of our lives. And there is little on line more compelling than the sight of our own name in… Read More

Ego, Emotions, Gratitude, Guides, Living Fully

SECOND BANANA SYNDROME

  second banana noun Informal. 1. a comic who supports the leading comedian, often as a straight man, especially in burlesque or vaudeville. 2. any person who plays a secondary role or serves in a subsidiary capacity.   This is a very interesting blog for me to write, especially this week.  But I have been thinking if not this week – when? I’m writing it for several reasons; the first might be selfish, as I discover much about myself when… Read More

Action, Addictions, Bravery, Courage, Ego, Risk

THE COMPETITIVE SPIRIT

  I’m not usually competitive.  I don’t play most sports for obvious reasons. Age, height and weight combined with minimal hand-eye coordination have kept me comfortably on the sidelines. I do love golf but have never really been good enough to get all,  “I’m gonna kick some ass out there today!’” about it.   My greatest opponent on the golf course resides just under my hat and right between my ears.  Like most golfers, I’m my own worst enemy. Too many swing… Read More