My daughter and I were discussing the blog the other evening and she asked, “Do you think it’s easy to get distracted from the things we really want to do?” “I don’t understand how it’s easy to get distracted when the things we get distracted with are things we want to do.” What an insightful… Read More
Unexpected Learning
I was cooking in the kitchen as I normally do on the weekends when I over heard my son saying to my wife, “fuss over me.” “Mom, fuss over me.” Being four years old his mind is pretty straight forward. I tend to be more of the disciplinarian in the family and my wife is… Read More
Seeking the Best in Ourselves
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have these because we have acted rightly; ‘these virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions’; we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a… Read More
Dealing with Bullies
My eight year old daughter is taking an active interest in my blog. She’s reading the posts and commenting about what she likes and doesn’t. She’s also starting to throw out ideas for posts. One recent suggestion is to write about bullying. At breakfast the other day, our family was talking about bullying and how… Read More
Knowing Our Intentions
As Yoda said, “Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future.” Our intention sets us on an ever-changing path. The future is in constant flux adapting to the decisions, choices, and activities of all elements in the system. When we use our imagination to set up a vision for ourselves on time horizons well… Read More
What’s your intention?
The word intention has it’s roots in the Latin Intendere (intend). To intend something is to ‘direct the attention to.’ Our attention is directed by both our conscious and unconscious minds. Unconsciously, our drives, instincts and impulses have a direction with some rooted deep in our psyche’s and part of our genetic programming. Sometimes we… Read More
Dealing with One of Those Days
Over the weekend, I had one of those days. You know the kind where things just don’t work out. I love cooking and lined up a few meals to cook for the family. Breakfast was good. The family enjoyed the eggs, fresh hash browns, sausage and toast. Afterwards, I started peeling apples for some fresh… Read More
Our Bubbling Spring of Intent
Intent springs forth from the center of who we are. It emerges from combination of the choices that well up from within, the rational decisions we make as well as our integration with the unfolding situation. Intent is our motive power that gives us purpose and meaning through the actions we take to achieve it. … Read More
Daddy, Live with Life!
A couple of years ago, I was discussing with my 4-year-old daughter the importance of just letting things be the way they are and that frustration or crying would not do her any good. She looked at me with those innocent eyes in all seriousness and summarized in her own words, “We just have to… Read More
Business of You 