We have all heard the phrase about a glass being half full or half empty as a commentary on whether we look at things in a positive or negative light. The most common interpretation is that if we see the glass half full we are optimistic and if we see it half empty we are
Seven days on a calendar makes a week, one day following another in one of the most predictable and reliable sequences we experience. Twenty-four hours, the same for everyone with the difference being in how we choose to spend that time. Beyond some of the necessary functions of eating and sleeping, and for many, working,
As a contrast to the two previous days of details, we are now going to the 30,000 foot view and have a look at the bigger picture. It may seem like a flip-flop from one extreme to the other. In a test, the question would start with, “Compare and contrast…..” asking us to consider similarities
It was an Anglican Bishop, Frances Atterbury, who said, “It’s attention to detail that makes the difference between average and stunning.” What we see every day may seem ordinary, familiar and even, at times, boring. It is perhaps why we travel to other places to get a different view of something we might regard as
Today, begin noticing your surroundings in some detail, eyes wide open to shapes, colors, designs and little things. Whether you are inside or out of doors will change the view so let’s start with indoors and notice where and how you are sitting. Secondly, if you look straight ahead what do you see? Now look
Easing into the new and unfamiliar is not flipping a switch from off to on or out to in. It is getting used to something gradually, a step at a time, little by little, not all at once like jumping into the deep end where we may be over our heads. Becoming comfortable with something
