THE QUEST PART 4: Allies, Motivators and Inspiration

Okay, so you’ve re-committed after those early annoyances (which can be more than minor irritants, but are just a taste of things to come), and are back on the journey.  Yeah! You know the funny thing about when you commit, truly commit, to the journey, you walk...

THE QUEST PART 3: Annoyances

Okay, so that thing called your name.  Insistently.  Persistently.  Wouldn’t let you go.  And despite all your best efforts to avoid it, something bumped you over the bridge and you’ve accepted the call. Yahoo!  You’re on your path!  This is your destiny, the course...

The Quest Part 2: Accepting the Challenge

So you heard the call, loud and clear.  Your calling spoke to you, showed you the task ahead.  And while at first it sounded great, every pee-pickin’ reason in the world arose as to why you could not accomplish this. So there you sit.  Pulled in two directions as if...

THE QUEST Part One: The Call

You know when the call comes, don’t you?  That voice, quiet, in the recesses of your mind, filtering up from the heart and never the loud one (that one is spelled EGO) but the soft, still, albeit insistent whisper that says, “Do X.” And X is always that thing you...

THE QUEST: Introduction

We’re all on a journey.  Life is just made of such, no?  About the time we think we’ve arrived somewhere, another path opens wide.  Another goal to pursue.  Another dream to follow.  As T.S. Eliot said, “What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end...

MAKE YOUR OWN NO-RESOLUTION LIST

It’s that time of year!  Not the holiday part, but the after effects.  Once the turkey’s all eaten, the presents open, the champagne savored, and the NYC ball dropped, what comes next? Diets, that’s what.  The most god-awful invention on the planet.  Or, sobriety. ...