"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone." -Neale Donald Walsch **WARNING: Picture Overload Ahead** Camping in Joshua Tree National Park The year was 2014. I went camping for the first time in years, went back to school, started eating pizza with sauce, rode a horse, which I hadn't done in 10 years, got …
Category: Personal Development
Comparison and Competition
“Comparison is the thief of joy.” -Theodore Roosevelt I hate to say it, but insecurity reared its ugly head again the other day. I’ve gotten better at detecting it and stopping it at the source (comparison), but unfortunately, I’m not perfect and not immune to it weaseling its way in to my mind from time …
Find, Define, Identify
What is the difference between a person finding themselves and a person defining themselves? Some coworkers and I were discussing this today without coming to much of a conclusion. When I was trying to “find myself”, I figured if I could define myself that would give me a clear enough direction. I noticed, however, that …
Grow 🌱
Summer is just around the corner and I’m finally getting around to writing a post I had in mind for springtime. I was going to take the opportunity to talk about my love for spring, how excited I was to work in my garden, and how the sweet sounds of baseball would be back. Since …
Thankful
As 2017 came to an end, like many others, I began to reflect on the past year. Earlier I turned to my journal which has become the greatest keepsake of all my struggles and hopes that I encountered this year. I began to write about all of the big things that happened this year: starting …
Strengths
Do you know those people who seem to focus on everything they’re not instead of seeing everything they are? Guilty! (You’d probably know that though if you read my last post, Success). In a psychology for effective living class I took, I had to take a survey where it ranked, from strongest to weakest, 24 …
Success
A little over a year ago, I was talking to a middle-aged coworker about dating. He advised me, as people often do, to date someone who’s older and more established. (No, he wasn’t suggesting himself). My biggest fear with dating someone older is that they’ll be more successful and won't be interested in me considering …
Honesty, Humor & Hope 