Making Time for Retreat: The “Good Person” Syndrome
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010Do you have the “good person syndrome”? Check and see if the following (faulty) unconscious personal rules may be why you, too, find it hard to make time for retreat:
Do you have the “good person syndrome”? Check and see if the following (faulty) unconscious personal rules may be why you, too, find it hard to make time for retreat:
Listen for their dream, even if it seems to you to be the wildest, most unattainable fantasy that ever existed.
And when you hear that dream, or maybe not even a dream, but what sounds like just a casual statement of desire for something in life (people test you with the little things first), try saying, truly meaning it:
“Yes. I wish that for you too.”
How would it change things if you believed that your mistakes were actually the beginning of masterpieces?
I took the top off my convertible last weekend. And the earth moved. Yes, yes, thank you, all of you jokesters for your insight: The earth only appeared to be moving as I zipped along at 70 mph up Texas Highway 290, on my way to see the bluebonnets. Everyone knows it was really the [...]
(Happy Valentine’s Week to all!..Here are some thoughts about Valentine's Day) Many people aren’t crazy about Valentine’s Day. I have a friend who gets grouchy every year at this time. “Why should I have to prove my love to someone on one specific day,” my friend asks, “when I show that love to them all [...]
I've learned a lot from being a photographer, and from doing many photo shoots…so I thought I'd share some of my discoveries with you! Here's the start of a new series, found here and on my new, "Inner Path of Photograhy" blog (click here) . This series is for everyone, photographer or not, for the [...]