Category: Human Experience
A human experience is why we have come to this world. We came here to deal with the messy emotions and to experience the struggle. We did not come here to be perfect.
Human beings, unlike other species, have a conscious awareness of their own mortality. Our human experience covers the mental, emotional, spiritual and physical characteristics of human life.
Humans are aware of the irony that they are both brilliant and aberrant, sensitive and savage, exquisitely caring and painfully indifferent, remarkably creative and incredibly destructive to self and others.
The Struggle Continues for Women
The struggle continues for women. Today is a tough day. The official ruling of the Roe v. Wade came down, even though we knew it was coming from the leaked draft. Yet here we are spinning from the news. It is heartbreaking. So this is a mixture of my thoughts as I try and figure […]
Leave things better than you find them, people too!
Leave things better than you find them. This is something that my mother and her mother, my grandmother said over and over again as I was growing up. At home it was walk into any room in the house and do one thing to leave it better than you found it. Do it all day […]
Mother’s Day Memories
Mother’s Day is a tough one for me. It brings up all sorts of emotions and memories that were not always happy. I stumbled across a photo earlier this week and it has brought me back to my deepest wounds. The forsythia is just about done blooming behind us. What struck me was that my […]
Be Rebellious!
Why would I say be rebellious? I had years of people feeding into my insecurities and it took a very long time to stop believing others and trusting myself. I walked through life full of fear and apologizing for everything that I do. Even now they come up. It is the recognition that they (my […]
How to Create More Productivity and Focus
The First Hour of Your Day Who doesn’t want more productivity out of their day? What’s the first thing you do when you get started each morning? For many of us, it’s a rush to the PC to check email, which leads to immediately getting bogged down in routine and “have to do” tasks. The […]
Covid-19 Finally Hit Our Home
A little over two weeks ago, Covid-19 hit our home. The last few days we have been stumbling around the house. Covid-19 has proved that even being the most careful, you still can get it. My husband, step-son and myself all have been suffering with it. Fortunately we were fully vaccinated and boosted. Yet we […]
Powerful Benefits of Breaking Bad Habits
Powerful Benefits of Breaking Bad Habits It’s obvious when habits start to consume your life. While as obvious as it is, that doesn’t mean doing the work to improve it is easier. Breaking bad habits requires change, and even if it’s a good change, it can be uncomfortable or intimidating to get started. It requires […]
Being More Accountable in Life
Being More Accountable in Life Being more accountable in life is not always comfortable. Accountability is responsible for the success you see and don’t see in your life right now. It is about being responsible and taking the initiative to lead and live the life you want. It’s about owning up to your faults and […]
What does it mean to be authentic?
Being Authentic Is More Than Just Being Honest Whenever we hear the word authentic, we usually associate it with a material object being genuine and of real value, such as an authentic Van Gogh painting or Michelangelo sculpture. The opposite of authentic is inauthentic – not real, fake, phony, insincere. In relation to the concept […]
Do You need to be More Efficient?
How to Be More Efficient You hear all the time that you or your company needs to be more efficient. But, do you know how to accomplish that? Efficiency seems like a word that is thrown at as the end-all be-all answer to problems within an organization. Without a proper plan, the likely result will […]