Tag: action

The time is never right… so, what are you waiting for? Many of us spend more time thinking about the powerful leaps we want to take in our lives, than we do with actually propelling ourselves into action. Every day, we are surrounded by opportunity, but we often take our time for granted, underestimate our abilities, and let fear color our perception of the current situation.

Overthinking is a national epidemic among young and middle-aged adults, but grows less debilitating the older we get.

Chaos theory tells us that a force as tiny as the fluttering of a butterfly’s wing can ultimately affect the weather hundreds of miles away. In a dynamic system such as the Earth’s weather, minor differences in initial conditions can create unpredictable, far-reaching long-term results.

A child’s emotional life is just as complex as the Earth’s atmosphere. One childhood event can send ripples far into the future, even into the next generation.

It is night. The princess flees the dragon—running, running into the woods. The handsome young prince charges up on his valiant steed, grabs the fearful dragon by the throat, and shows the princess it was only a paper dragon, nothing to be feared at all. The princess sighs with relief. The prince looks soulfully into the princess's eyes:

Prince: "I will take you wherever you want to go, beautiful one, you have but to say where."
Princess: "Where?"
Prince: "Yes, tell me where you want to go."
Princess: "I don't know where."

In this time of a seemingly-never-ending pandemic, Valentine’s Day is bound to be different for many of us. Those who are couples may miss the traditional dinners-out, romantic get-aways, and other such expressions of their undying affection.

However, what if there was an easy, heartfelt way for all of us to honor Valentine’s Day. A way to express love in a safe, non-COVID threatening way, not just to our sweetheart, but to the many others in our world that we hold dear. It’s putting love into action by simply saying, "Thank you."

The idea of "falling in love" as an all-consuming passion over which we seem to have little control, is standard romantic fare. We meet someone with whom there is a strong physical and even emotional attraction. We may even get to the stage where we become mildly obsessed. We can't seem to get this love interest out of our minds. We not only think about this lucky one constantly, but when we see him/her we often get all warm and fuzzy inside and our body might do things which we didn't exactly plan for. Finally, we get hitched and regrettably, sometime after, the excitement gradually wanes or, for some, comes to a screeching halt. Then some of us claim to have "fallen out of love." Did we honestly expect to maintain these heady feelings for a lifetime and what are our relationship options in marriage when this intensity begins to fade?

Oh, that sweet feeling of falling in love! That dizzying magical enchanted feeling that all is right with the world, and certainly with you as you feel swept off your feet. Then of course, reality sets in. He snores, leaves his clothes on the floor of the closet, and wet towels—well, that too. He comes home tired and spends the weekend asleep on the couch or buried in work. You feel abandoned, neglected and, although you love him, you hardly feel in love.