The mind is a muscle and needs to be worked out.  If it’s not, just like a bicep - or any other muscle, it will grow smaller and weaker.  Here are 7 tasks that may be worth living by: Choice - doing and thinking morally right Refusal - of temptation Yearning - to get better Repulsion - of … Continue reading 447. 7 ways of being worth striving for 

How often are we asked the questions: Who are you? What do you do? Where do you come from? Why?  Could we give an answer? (a real one)  Or do we just throw up a smokescreen?  We can take time to gain clarity about who we are and what we stand for… Vs the alternative: to be too … Continue reading 446. Could we? 

What if we could live without the noise  Or what if we could live with our focus on us instead of on others?  What good does it do to gossip?  What if these concepts where the guidepost of our way of living:  Controlling our perspectives  Doing the right thing through our actions  And accepting, willingly, … Continue reading 445. What if? 

Obligations, invitations, requests, stuff people are doing - does it matter if we say yes or no to these things?  Absolutely. It’s easy to say yes, let our time go away.  It’s hard to say no.  It’s even harder to say no to emotions, to anger, distraction, excitement - these turn into commitments like everything … Continue reading 444. Does it matter that much? 

What do we do during our free time?  It’s easy to scroll on social media, watch videos, and distract ourselves. Distractions happen, can we get back on track?  Because there’s an alternative to distractions   Striving for better And that’s what we’re after.  Reflecting on our past actions, learning how to live; to fear less, to … Continue reading 443. Time passers 

 There’s a difference between what we can change, and what we can’t.  Often, we mix the two.  Being mean to people to get our way - hurts relationships.  Yelling at the at&t guy won’t fix the service  No matter how hard we try, we can’t make someone like us.  And here’s a viewpoint to clear … Continue reading 442. What can I change today?

We like to control the controllable,  How we act, respond, what we do or think,  They’re all within our control  Preparing is the one thing we can do to give it our best shot at whatever we’re trying to do, Do we prepare with all we got?  Or do we half-ass it?

Fun, we all have it. Or try too (dare I say should?)  Fun could be hanging out with friends, partying, drinking, acting up, fighting  Or even running and working towards things like our goals   Fun could be what we do for a living, having fun everyday.  Everyone’s fun’s different.  And we don’t have to push … Continue reading 440. What about fun? 

Situations Circumstances Our moods The seasons Jobs  Relationships Our lives  All things eventually end  It could take a few seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, or years  But they’ll end…  Just let them pass

Some people have a plan and don’t do it  And some have a plan, do the plan, and that’s it  while others have a plan, do the plan, and review the work that was done…  That review piece is so critical, but it can’t happen till the other two steps happen. It's a three-step process … Continue reading 438. 3 steps