I thought of a name for my autobiography, if I ever decide to write it: Well, That Didn’t Work. My life is full of things that didn’t go the way I’d wanted or planned.
Divine Redos: Bouncing Back When You’ve Messed Up
So, when you’ve really done something monumentally dumb, how do you recover?
Overcoming procrastination – 8 strategies.
Procrastination. I’m so good at it I could teach it on the graduate level. I’ve tended to blow procrastination off as just a “thing,” a tendency that isn’t exactly laziness but just a desire to put things off. Never put off anything until tomorrow unless you can put it off till next week, right? Yet, […]
7 life rules for 2023
It seems that some “life rules” for this new year might be in order. There’s nothing magical about these, but they seem pretty appropriate. Fact is, they’re good life rules for any year.
Hard lessons I’ve learned in the last year.
Life is full of hard lessons, now isn’t it? This should be self-evident, but we could probably save ourselves a lot of grief if we’d just simply chill. What I’ll share with you today falls in that vein. This pondering on hard lessons might strike you as defeatist. I’ll go with it anyway; you may […]
My fake relationships – 3 points to ponder.
When it comes to fake relationships, I’ve learned that I can be nice without being honest.
Doomscrolling.
We live in a chaotic world, and I’m not denying that. Most of the chaos we can’t do anything about, because it’s simply out of our hands. What we can do is manage our response to chaos. Which means – stop your doomscrolling.
10 thoughts about emotions.
I had a friend tell me once, “Your mind can be working perfectly well, but at the same time your emotions can be out in the street kicking cans.” I rather liked that, even though the truth of it isn’t pleasant. What is it about our emotions that can grab us and drag us all over the map? Why is it that our rational thinking can say one thing but our emotional state undo our sane thinking?
How your food mindset can improve your wellbeing.
Did you know that your food mindset can affect all other areas of your life? My guest blogger today, Chad Gramling, does a great job of unpacking this.
Here’s what’s encouraging me these days.
I want to use my blog space today to share what’s encouraging me these days. If you could use a bit of encouragement today, here are some resources that can help. Going forward, I will be sharing more resources each month. Watch for them! For blog lovers J.S. Park He’s a hospital chaplain, a chaplain […]
10 really good books (AND some exciting news – a free book giveaway!)
This is a free giveaway of 10 books. Really. No catch.