It is best if I always stop, breathe and think before I respond. Not that I have been over-reacting to anything these days… I have become much better at the calm and dignified response over the past several years… but it is important to remember that I, like most humans, have triggers. In alcoholics anonymous [...]
And this time I mean business. I haven’t been in my blog for a while and although I don’t have any regrets in my life… I do feel I should be sharing the freedom of expression and ever-present reminders I offer myself by putting whatever is on my mind out there. It isn’t for lack [...]
Trust may be the most difficult battle I will ever conquer in my lifetime…but I will take it down. During the course of my life I have learned that many people and situations were not trustworthy. I have felt abandoned, lied to and taken advantage of. It has not broken me… and in most (if [...]
Remember this mantra: “It doesn’t Matter.” Now you may ask… what does my mantra have to do with the spirit of compromise? You may also be asking how I could look at the world with what would appear to be an apathetic attitude. I will answer both of these questions in a moment. Suffice it [...]
Sometimes it is completely necessary. In the past several weeks I have been stepping up on the changing of routines, focus, thought process and the results have been very, very nice. I see the value at taking an inventory and creating the changes I desire as opposed to only sitting within my life and hoping [...]
This is not a blog about ego. Inspiration provides motivation. Motivation potentially leads to action. Action will always bring about the results and lessons. And, for me, results and lessons fill me with inspiration. This is the sort of cycle I have been working on incorporating into my life. It’s not the first time I’ve [...]
What makes you happy? For me, it seems, it has been largely what I do not have, what I have considered unattainable and whatever might be coming next. So, it would seem, I am happy by the prospect of what my life could be. This , I suppose is not necessarily a bad way to [...]
My name is Mark and I am a people pleaser. At least that is someone I have been for the greater part of my life. It was important to me that I be validated, recognized, coddled, complimented, or simply noticed or acknowledged. Granted, any one of these things on its own is not necessarily a [...]
It’s amazing how much can be learned by listening. It is entirely possible that I have ADD…. or perhaps I am over-tired on many of my days. Sometimes I feel that I am doing too much and my brain becomes filled to the brim and simply cannot handle anything more. Other times I just fall [...]
I have been struggling with faith and the future these days. It would appear that I am in a very long (and sometimes arduous) crossroads. It isn’t the first time I have realized transition and if I am lucky it will not be the last. What it does to me personally, however, is create inner [...]