Dr. Zimbardo  gives an entertaining and informative talk on how we conceptualize and organize time.  I think you’ll enjoy this, and learn something useful that you can apply to your understanding of yourself and how you approach everyday life.

Quote for Intentional Living

“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.”

 Theodore Rubin

Quote for Intentional Living

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness.

Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.

Louise Erdrich

Reblogged from Tools for Intentional Living - Dr. J. Nickens:

“We are all glowing embers of a distant fire.”

Alicia Lemke

… and if you’re not sure if this is true, watch this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwe-pA6TaZk

Sent to me by a thoughtful client who grew beyond her own expectations, and shared with me this poem of quiet and heart-felt thanks.

And thank YOU.

 Oh, the comfort -

The inexpressible comfort -

of feeling safe with a person,

Having neither to weigh thoughts,

Nor measure words –

but pouring them all right out –

just as they are –

Chaff and grain together –

Certain that a faithful hand

Will take and sift them –

Keep what is worth keeping –

and with the breath of kindness

Blow the rest away.

You too can find this quiet understanding, perhaps first with a qualified and dedicated therapist if need be, and then with others in your life.

 Call today and make an appointment to find an easy ear and a generous heart to listen and reflect with you.

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning,

but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

Maria Robinson

“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. 

For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”

     M. Scott Peck

This test asks questions about the problems associated with excessive use of alcohol.  Two “YES” answers indicate that a more extensive evaluation may be needed to determine the nature and extent of your problems with alcohol.

C – Have you ever felt you should cut down on your drinking?

A – Have people annoyed you by criticizing your drinking?

G – Have your ever felt bad or guilty about your drinking?

E – Have you ever had a drink first thing in the morning, and eye opener, to steady your nerves or to get rid of a hangover?

If you answered “yes” to two or more of these items, please consider making a decision to empty your glass and fill your life with new purpose.  Contact a substance abuse program or counselor, or a qualified psychotherapist who is skilled in working with substance use concerns.  

Yes, you can.

“Abundance is, in large part, an attitude.”

     Sue Patton Thoele