Always Starting

Category: Self-Improvement

  • Seeking Normal – Day 4

    Day 4 prompt: What is the normal I am longing for? My answer: This one is easy. I long for a day that I am not ridden with anxiety that I cannot define. I long for a day that I end the day feeling inspired and not exhausted. I long for a day when I…

  • Seeking Normal – Day 3

    Day 3 prompt: The Urban Dictionary defines normal as “A word made up by this corrupt society so they could single out and attack those who are different.” What is your reaction? My answer: Well this strikes up quite a bit of emotion as the word “attack” will always strike a chord. I am familiar…

  • Seeking Normal – Day 2

    Day 2 prompt: Consider the antonyms for normal, abnormal, exceptional, odd, out-o-the-ordinary, strange, unusual, extraordinary. Are they better or worse than normal? Do they describe you? My answer: Funny that some of these words are those that we are honored to be described as and others would be insults but all are the opposite of…

  • Seeking Normal – Day 1

    Last year we published a prompt journal called “Seeking Normal” after a journal entry I had written about my journey to get back to normal after losing my Mom. It was in that journey that I began to understand that this “normal” I was searching for likely never existed. My original post can be found…

  • Who are you…really?

    This moment in our lives when everything we thought “was” “is” we are faced with many questions about life and who we are. We walk around in this world in “roles” as defined: the function assumed or part played by a person or thing in a particular situation When that assumed function or part is…

  • Less IS More…if you are willing because now you ARE able

    In my reading this morning I find myself searching for the “right thing” to write about in these very difficult moments. Our world has changed, regardless of the similarities each of us has experienced a monumental shift in the lives we were living two weeks ago. It is with this sensitivity that I find myself…

  • Give it Time…literally

    It will come in time, if you give it time… This is a reminder that all things worth having are worth waiting for but more importantly they are also worth time. While we are setting our intentions it is not enough to “set it and forget it”. To state the intention is the first step…

  • Balance…Intention Distribution

    Balance…what a word…it brings about immediate response in a world that is imploding from all sides. We have more to do than ever before because there is more to do thanks to 24 hour operations, access to everything all the time and boundaries that no longer exist. The task at hand is to take the…

  • Letting Go of Managing

    Last weekend I had the benefit of spending a day at the Oprah 2020 Vision Tour and of course was taking notes feverishly as she and her thought-leaders shared their experiences and philosophies. There were many “aha” moments that day but one that resonated with me profoundly “Don’t manage where you should be consulting.“ BOOM!…

  • Changing a Life…one resolution at a time

    Changing a Life…one resolution at a time

    This last week of every year starts my mind thinking through what I want in the coming year. Being someone who admittedly is “Always Starting…” I don’t need a New Year to start again. In my dieting days it was a Monday that would be the “start” and of course the ultimate for all large…