Tagged with life is short

Disengaged Management

Disengaged Management

Often, when I have conversations with people I will ask about their employment and how they like their job.  I usually hear one of two things; “I love my job, or I hate my job.”  There are times when I might hear, “My job is okay, I am glad I have one, but it is … Continue reading

Small Habits Over Time

Small Habits Over Time

I have been reading the book “Atomic Habits” by James Clear, it is an excellent book if you want to continue to improve yourself one day at a time. I want to share just a paragraph from the book that I found to be a quite powerful reminder. “Time magnifies the margin between success and … Continue reading

Take Time Each Day

Take Time Each Day

Life certainly is short no matter what.  I was talking with a Doctor who specializes in Oncology and Cancer survival and she told me that she has worked with people who have faced death at the ages 24 and at 94 and all ages in between and each one of them said they wanted to … Continue reading

Are You Happy?

Are You Happy?

My Italian Father always says “We need to understand that every person is different.”  So often we think everyone should think, feel and understand the way that we do, it just is not so. What is just as important as realizing each one of us is very different from another, is that we individually must … Continue reading

Maybe It’s About The Story…

Maybe It’s About The Story…

Sing praises to the beginning of another week!  Life is certainly interesting I am sure you agree.  One day we can be happy and looking forward to the next and then something happens in a split second that can change our happiness into stress, anger, confusion or sadness. We try to set a plan in … Continue reading

Make Today Count

Make Today Count

It’s only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had. ~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Blowing Problems Out Of Proportion

Blowing Problems Out Of Proportion

Problems are always going to happen.  Many times when they do happen we will put the problem under a microscope and magnify it to make it bigger or worse than it really is. When we blow it out of proportion and lose sight of what the real problem is.  We begin focusing on things that … Continue reading

Do Not Fear Change

Do Not Fear Change

Facing change in any area of our life can have its challenges.  Sometimes change brings the feeling of excitement, but it can also bring feelings of fear. Change can bring on a multitude of emotions even before the actual “change” has occurred.  We feed ourselves with thoughts of what the change will be like, yet we … Continue reading

This Moment Is Like A Melting Snowflake

This Moment Is Like A Melting Snowflake

“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake.” ~ Marie Beyon Ray When I read this quote it made me realize, again, that many times I put on hold the things I … Continue reading