OMIGOD!!!! What if I don’t graduate high school in the top 3% of my class? What if I’m not valedictorian? Or salutatorian? What if I screw up the preSAT, SAT… or the ACT or FRE, or TFU or whatever alphabet soup test is the latest and greatest determinant of my worth as a human being…
We often hear how we need to have a dream and go after it and never give up. Sounds romantic, but it is not that simple. In one way, it is not easy to just keep going and not give up. But what I want to share today is the idea that many of us…
I was recently drawn into a conversation with a person I had never met. She had a need to blame me for some of her life experiences and choices, and so I let her. At first, I told her that this had nothing to do with me, but as the conversation continued I decided she…
The Hierarchy of needs, illustrated below, may look familiar to you. It has been around for quite some time. However over the years, I have tinkered with it for my own needs and philosophy. I have interpreted aspects of it to suit my world-view and to answer larger questions in my life. We have 6…