What Would You do? There was a story on Facebook today that had an interesting conclusion. A man was asked to answer the following question in a job interview. What if you were in your car and you pulled up to a bus stop and there were three people waiting there. One was to be…
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Mental Illness I have had the privilege to undergo a lot of mental and emotional counseling in my life, At one point, it occurred to me that most of us would be well served by having feedback about our choices in life. We are all the result of our environment, our parenting, peer pressure and…
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Tough News Those of you who regularly read this blog, know that I mostly focus on the positive side of life. For me, there is too much attention given to all the things we do wrong. Today would be an exception. Another mass shooting in a school. Parents sent their children to school today and…
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MAY I Be HAPPY Another wonderful movie we are presenting at the Illuminate Film Festival is MAY I Be HAPPY. It is a movie about mindfulness. It is being shown on Saturday, June 2nd at 1:00 pm at the black box theater in the Sedona Performing Arts Center. Mindfulness means maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of…
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What to Write Lou Ann has been writing just about every morning of our married life. She has also used the Three Morning Pages system that Julia Cameron began sharing back in 1992 in her wonderful book The Artist Way. The Morning Pages idea, is to sit and write longhand, on three letter sized pages…
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Keeping the Dream Alive Back in 1995, I had the opportunity of going to Los Angeles to the Income Builders International training seminar. It was a seminar that taught people who had a dream, a book, a business or a passion to create a plan to market it. We were living in Sedona and we…
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Treasure Hunt I have a Fit-bit exercise watch. I wear it to keep track of my steps during each day. My goal is to have a least 10,000 steps daily. My children and some of their children and their friends engage in a friendly competition called the Workweek Hustle. Most of all of the people…
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What the World Needs Now Mother’s Day is the third biggest retail holiday of the year. And rightly so! Mother’s are celebrated highly because we know in our hearts how much they love. I was the youngest of three sons with an alcoholic father. My mother worked constantly to keep the family fed and together. …
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Loving Life We went to a local restaurant here in Sedona the other day with one of our dearest friends Ellie Cooper. We have known Ellie since 1995 when Lou Ann and I were sharing Spirit Church. We also collaborated on the development of the Positive Place Television Talk Show. Later on, I had obtained…
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Change the World Those of you who regularly read my blog, know that I am involved with the Illuminate Film Festival. We are in our fifth year of operation. Each year we choose about twenty five films out of a possible six hundred, to show here in Sedona. Lou Ann and I are on the…
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