by Gary | Aug 22, 2025 | Above the Line, Change Your Thoughts, Effective Communication, Intention
I tend to reflect on my past. As a regular reader of these posts can attest, I can spend time being critical of my past transgressions. However, I am also a very experienced nostalgia practitioner. As Cathy and I prepared for an upcoming vacation in San Diego, I...
by Gary | Aug 8, 2025 | Above the Line, Change Your Thoughts, Effective Communication, Intention
I’ve been having one of those days where anxiety seems to have more power than enthusiasm. It started before I woke up, and it’s been not easy to shift into enthusiasm. Fortunately, this doesn’t happen often, and I can usually focus on doing something that energizes...
by Gary | Jul 25, 2025 | Effective Communication
I remember playing the Telephone Game in grade school, where a message would be passed along by whisper. The message heard by the last person was radically different than the original. Recently, I observed the Telephone Game converted into an Adult Gossip Machine on...
by Gary | Jul 11, 2025 | Align Your Actions, Change Your Thoughts
A few years ago, I spent an entire day, 24 hours, worrying about something that wasn’t real. I didn’t even try to shift my thinking to trusting in a different outcome, even though I recognized I didn’t have all the information. I just “knew” my fear of what was...
by Gary | Jun 27, 2025 | Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Thoughts, Clarity in Life
I glanced at my to-do list this morning and realized that I was so far behind that for many of the items on the list, the ink was faded from age. Then I felt pressure—the pressure of not working hard enough, not being more disciplined, basically not being good enough....