Hill Holler

(Continued from Part 1 of The Fear of Goal Setting and How to Overcome it)

Let’s say you play guitar and would love to be in a band, but you’re not very good at the moment and are on the verge of dismissing that thought as a possible career. Hold on a moment! Read the rest of this entry »

Rejection. Even the word itself can send a shiver down your spine. It has probably happened to us all at some point in our life in some shape or form. It may be that you have offered the hand of friendship and it was pushed away, which is even more painful if it has been initially accepted. Perhaps a relationship breaks down and you find yourself alone when you did not want to be and maybe not for the first time. Or the relationship never even gets off the ground when you had high hopes that it might and misread the signals.

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Lessons in life aren’t always easily learned. Sometimes, it takes a while for us to recognize that there may be a reason that certain situations in life seem to keep repeating themselves, and each time seems worse than the last.  Here’s a thought. Is it possible we’re just not getting the lesson we’re supposed to learn from it?

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Ask people to sum up what happiness is in a few words and you’ll get a variety of answers plus a few furrowed brows. It’s a subjective topic, with parameters that are only defined within ourselves. That’s why I say happiness is the loneliest of mysteries, as we each have to find the answers alone that are meaningful to us. Let me share with you an example here from my own childhood. Read the rest of this entry »

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. ~ Alexander Graham Bell

You know someone who does this, admit it. We all have friends or family that fit the bill here. They bemoan their misfortune at every opportunity.

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Acceptance means different things to different people. Acceptance, to me, is when you make the conscious decision to be at peace about an event or person that perhaps previously you would have been judgmental about. No longer do you have the desire to be and instead decide to respect their freedom of choice.

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