June 2007

The Archives

• 06.28.07
  Take Your Comfort Zone to the Moon   Change (1)

  In order to change, we must leave or expand our comfort zone. On July 20, 1969 Commander Neil Armstrong and Astronaut Edwin Aldrin left the earth and stood firmly on the moon.
  They left the comfort of the earth to follow their dream to the moon. On Apollo 11 they cut through [...]

• 06.25.07
  Maximizing Your Ideas as You Embrace Change   Change, Inspiration (0)

  Every concept can be turned into reality. Over the past couple of months, I have been working on what I call the IDEA matrix, a tool that allows you to maximize your ideas and embrace change. The processes outlined below interact at so many levels and the lines are not clear-cut between them. It is possible [...]

• 06.25.07
  It’s good to be a loser!   Change (1)

  I mean it. When you lose years of extra physical baggage, it feels good to be a loser. Ask me. Within a few years of finishing college and joining the workplace, my skinny frame turned plump, before becoming dangerously shapeless. Dangerous because of the health concerns it posed, not because of how weird I appeared [...]

• 06.24.07
  Nothing So Constant   Change (1)

  “There is nothing so constant as change,” some wise person once observed. She was probably looking in the mirror. We grow up, then out and finally down. I feel bad about my neck, too, Nora, but not nearly as bad as I feel about some other parts of my body. Thankfully, [...]

• 06.23.07
  Change, Guilt and Ambivalence   Change (1)

  Even good change can be stressful.
  Last year, I was 42. I quit my job, left Los Angeles, bought a house my husband had never seen in a tiny town where we did not know a soul. I escaped the rat race for the mouse race and downshifted…well, pretty much everything. I [...]

• 06.21.07
  Life Changes   Change (1)

  Change can be subtle or brutal.
  In my life it was brutal.
  A near death experience, fear, lashing out at people I care about.
  My loving husband writing friends and explaining morphine can be pretty hard on a person. No Excuses, simply explanations. Some responded, some ran.
  Change, Choice, life
  Time settles things, I have learned what I can and [...]

• 06.15.07
  You Think We Have It Bad…   Change (2)

  Changing a simple habit is hard enough. Changing how well we eat, how much we exercise, how carefully we listen to one another…
  But imagine if you were trying to change an entire culture? Or if you wanted to change an image that dated back thousands of years?
  Tune in to Straight from the Barrel… to find [...]

• 06.13.07
  Would you accept the change?   Change (1)

  Change is always difficult.
  I remember hearing a friend tell the story that he went along to a 30 year school reunion. He said the only person who had not changed was him!
  It was of course tongue in cheek but within that there is an important statement.
  Mahatma Gandhi said ‘You must be the change you [...]

• 06.12.07
  Life Is A (Blog) Carnival   Change (0)

  This is my first 100 Bloggers post. When it comes to connecting the unconnected, there’s not many ways better in the blogosphere than posting in carnivals.
  I’m hosting my first carnival next Monday; there’s a double feature. These carnivals are part of the Gonzo carnival series.
  The carnival I’m hosting will be made up of posts related [...]

• 06.10.07
  How to be a Sure Champion   Growth, Inspiration, Productivity, Success (2)

  Yesterday I had the chance to watch the final game of the much anticipated rematch at French Open Tennis Championship between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. It was a very hot day outside and my wife and I decided to play scrabble while we watched the championship. Our 16-month old son was right in the mix as he ran [...]

• 06.06.07
  What I know . . .   Change (4)

  I know that I am not posting enough on my own blog or elsewhere.
  . . . that I do not give my writing the space or time it deserves.
  . . . that I am not maximizing the gift my writing can offer to others.
  . . .  that when I am not slaving away in my real [...]

• 06.06.07
  I hate change   Attitude, Change (1)

  Here it comes over the horizon like a wet cloud
  All my papers will get wet
  Unless I move.
  The call to action comes like a trumpet
  As the Army of Change approaches
  Can’t we just have peace?
  The drops fall as I scurry to cover my works
  The scratches and scrawls of my plans
  All laid to waste.
  The weather changes as I [...]

• 06.06.07
  Julia Roberts is Following Me   Change (1)

  She eats at Maxine’s.
  She takes walks on Main Street.
  She goes to my HEB to buy milk and shampoo.
  Willem Dafoe strolls down Pecan Street with a briefcase, and sits on porch swings. An excessively tall and improbably brunette Emily Watson visits Lock’s and tries the different flavors of ice cream.
  The town’s teen and tween girls [...]

• 06.06.07
  Change   Change, Growth (1)

  Change. For many of my adult years I dreaded the word…change…ARGHH! I fought it. I resisted any form of change to my comfortable routine of life. My automatic reaction to any suggestion for change was an emphatic no.
  And my life was hard. Not hard as in homeless or addicted or unemployed, but hard as in [...]

• 06.05.07
  June 2007 Theme: Change   Change (2)

  Change
  What does change mean to you?
  Do you like change?
  How do you deal with change?
  Can you spare some change?
  How often do you change your hairstyle?
  Why do you resist change?
  Is change good or is change bad?
  Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anyone really care? (OK, that’s a Chicago song. But write about that if [...]

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