Coming out of the Thanksgiving break for all of us I thought I would play a little game with you. Please participate and help me out with your comments if you would. Since we all got to look around our world and count our blessings and reflect a little bit prior to getting charged up for Christma
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11/30/2008
I have always wondered about those retirement parties at various offices, whether it be in real estate or corporate America. The gold watches, the duffel bags given out, the GOOD LUCK BALLOONS. What is this stuff, "Good luck?" Do you get it just by carting some colorful balloons back out to you
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11/30/2008
In today's tubulent times in Real Estate and the general economy the stresses of life just seem to be magnified. You may have financial stress from your business, your employment, from your budget having more bills to go toward the end of the month without the income matching up quite right with
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11/29/2008
People ask me all the time about this seemingly unflappable nature or calm I have. The key to that peaceful easy feeling in addition to my own personal faith journey, I have found is ACCEPTANCE. I have seen it working with clients, in relationships, and in circumstances. A well worn phrase the
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11/28/2008
I've noticed that people that seem to learn the most, experience the most and "try" the most. They are NOT couch potatoes. To Walk the Road to Enlightenment You must travel through the Briar Patch. Two examples: Blog reading. Do you find yourself reading your blog roll and all your faves ONLY eac
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11/28/2008
Rolling out of bed at 5:30 a.m. Thanksgiving morn proves you are just a little crazy. There I said it. It is in the public record. I wanted to go on a training run for a forthcoming half marathon with our city's 41st annual Dallas YMCA Turkey Trot run of eight miles. My theory was that a Runner's
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11/27/2008
Thanksgiving reminds us to pause and in our lives look around at the blessings we have had bestowed upon us. In biology, so often we think of memory as an array of neurons and synaptic connections providing both short term and long term accounts of events in our lives. But there is a special kind
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11/26/2008
At this time of year many look only to their material accomplishments as blessings but I would contend that some of your most valuable blessings are found within. The word affluence comes from a meaning of abundant flow. Your prosperity does not come from the things you have but from the consciou
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11/25/2008
A young man named John received a parrot as a gift. The parrot had a bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary. Every word out of the bird's mouth was rude, obnoxious, and laced with profanity. John tried and tried to change the bird's attitude by consistently saying only polite words, playing
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11/24/2008