January 2007

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• 01.30.07
  On New Beginnings   Growth (0)

  This fall, we sold our little beach cottage in Los Angeles to move to a big house in a small town just outside Austin. I had been home only six or seven days a month, anyway, so why were we paying a mortgage on a house I never saw, by a beach I never [...]

• 01.25.07
  Simply Unfolding   Growth (2)

  As I sit before the computer, waiting to start my morning walk on the terrace, a new day is unfolding. A bunch of birds are twittering in the backyard, devotional music is streaming in from the other room, the CPU is droning, my fingers pressing against the keyboard. Life happening—automatically, marvelously.
  That’s exactly how entire lifetimes [...]

• 01.25.07
  Questions and Answers   Growth (4)

  “Good questions outrank easy answers.” - Anonymous
  What questions are you asking yourself today, this week, this month, this year? Are you asking yourself the tough questions, like why am I here, and what am I supposed to do with my life? Or the tougher questions, like pizza or pasta, or ice cream or custard.
  Every question [...]

• 01.23.07
  Saying goodbye   Growth (2)

  Sometimes life is about saying goodbye
  This is in memory of my daughter..
  Who would be 29 this year…
  Today
  I wipe away my tears as
  they fall down upon
  my face
  trying hard to smile
  thru the old old tears
  a grief that never ends.
  I Remember all the times we shared, the laughter and the tears
  as I sit and think, of you my [...]

• 01.21.07
  Franklin Sunrise   Growth (2)

  Franklin Sunrise

  Originally uploaded by shersteve.

  New day. New Year. New Beginnings.
  You can write between the lines, or above the line, or anywhere you want.
  Your future is your choice.
  Make good choices!

• 01.13.07
  Discovering motivations   Attitude, Growth, Inspiration, Productivity, Success (1)

  Inspired by the changes at 100 Bloggers I was encouraged to change what I was doing on another blog of mine, Unraveling to Understand. One of the changes I made their was to consolidate my blog categories and also to theme what I was going to be doing each month of 2007 like 100 bloggers.  [...]

• 01.13.07
  Small Stuff   Growth (1)

  It is only human to want to make sense of life.  “Why?” we ask of painful events.  “Why me?  Why now?  Why this?”  Believers or nots want to understand, to have a meaning to hold on to, when bad things happen to good people, to crib Rabbi Kushner’s title.  You’d think a lifelong agnostic would [...]

• 01.13.07
  9 Rules for Making Good Decisions   Growth, Productivity (1)

  Making good decisions is not always easy. We struggle at times to make smart decisions, especially when faced with difficult choices. How do we know which choice to make when none jumps out at us as the right one? What if we make the wrong decision? These and other questions trouble us as we struggle [...]

• 01.03.07
  Creative Goal Setting   Growth (14)

  The prevailing methodology for goal setting, especially in organizations, follows the SMART acronym. SMART is an acronym for varying process steps, typically Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time (linked). But SMART may not be the best goal setting process for everyone. SMART is primarily a left-brained process, lending itself to tracking by managers, which makes [...]

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