You can decide whether or not you'll exercise when you wake up in the morning, or you can set out your clothes + shoes before you go to bed, making the commitment before you need to. Chances of success go up significantly when the choice is made before the brain has something more compelling (like s...
It's finally spring here in Virginia, and my youngest loves to play at the park after school. Today, we had to come home first to change clothes and grab a snack. As she was changing, she had an idea:
"I want to ride my bike to the park!"
"Sure!" I agreed.
"And we'll have an adventure!" She added.
"Abs...
I was kind of a nerdy kid, and sometimes for fun I would read my dad's dictionary (you're learning a lot of fun facts about me here 😅). I still love to dig into definitions and think about how they connect with what I'm learning.
Exploring the word meaning is an interesting exercise. It appears as t...
I don't know about where you live, but here in Virginia it's been a long winter. Some weeks, it's seemed like this season will never end.
But driving to church today and seeing the trees whose bare branches have started to show little hints of something new, I realized that -- even with the coldest ...
Anxiety and possibility are closely related. Both use the imagination, and both can be identified by one question:
What if...?
The difference between anxiety and possibility, then, is what the What if question is combined with.
What if + fear = anxiety (what if the stove catches on fire)
What if + hat...
Don't get me wrong, I love a sunrise however I can get it. But I've noticed that when there are some clouds in the sky, the colors are even more vibrant and beautiful (obviously not when the sky is covered in clouds, but you know what I mean). There's plenty of science behind the "why," (like here, ...
This morning, the sky was covered in clouds and the sun rose without any kind of fanfare. But it still rose.
Some days are like that. Gray, unimpressive, "mid," as my 13-year old would say.
But that's still enough.
We can still move forward, progressing toward our goals and finding beauty in the thi...
