A friend read a quote by Viktor Frankl on an art bench I painted during the pandemic: “Those who have a ‘why’ to live can bear with any ‘how’.” She proceeded to tell me of another Frankl quote that she shares in many of her coaching settings: “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and … [Read more...]
What cures and purifies your soul?
I’m not sure why I’m surprised every time a new month, like August, shows up when I open my computer to write a weekly article. Doing the math, it’s only 140 days, or 20 weeks, or 3,360 hours until Christmas Day. The older I get, the faster the years go by and the slower the days pass. Whatever the date, the week, or the hour, what I know for sure is that my most precious … [Read more...]
Mother Time doesn’t offer do-overs
Every week, as I open my “Sentinel” file and stare at the empty screen with just the date in the top left corner, I think of the saying, “Time sure flies when you’re having fun.” In my world, it also flies when I’m not having fun. It just plainly flies. Time is an odd, curious phenomenon. We lose an hour and gain an hour with daylight savings time, but would we notice if we … [Read more...]