When you face a challenge in life, you more often than not have the choice as to how to react. You can stand in awe, crumble in futility or rise to the occasion. In my experience, life's difficulties are better met with gusto than distaste. Every difficulty successfully met tends to produce: 1) some new …
Tag: Life Lessons
Leo’s Life Lessons
"The Horse" by Ronald Duncan Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, Friendship without envy, Or beauty without vanity? Here, where grace is served with muscle And strength by gentleness confined He serves without servility; he has fought without enmity. There is nothing so powerful, nothing less violent. There is nothing …
The Bee’s Knees
Some life lessons come packaged in an instant. They're the sort that you miss if you blink. I had a "funny in hindsight" moment on a mountain bike ride last weekend and as brief as the moment was, its implications keep expanding like one of those kid's dinosaur sponges that grow to many times their …
Calm, Forward, Straight
As a living, breathing human being, you are an animate creature, capable of orienting in, being motivated by and coloring your expression with a wide variety of spirits. The spirit which compels or dominates your expression in any given moment gives evidence to the true centering of your heart, regardless of what you believe mentally …
Simplest Terms
Even the most difficult problems can be overcome if you approach them in the right way. One of the many life lessons I've found to be extremely valuable is the fact that you can parlay success in one area of your life into other areas. The translation into application in a new area may not …
Try Something New
One of the several books I am presently dipping into is William Steinkraus' Reflections on Riding and Jumping. If you aren't an equestrian or are and haven't heard of this remarkable man, I would highly recommend that you take a moment to discover more about his love of music and horses. William Steinkraus is one …
Making it Manageable
“If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly, many an unbearable situation would become manageable, and many a nervous illness avoided.” ~ Claire Weekes In a world where most people are not consistently giving their highest and finest you are bound …
Personal Responsibility
You've probably come across the idea in your life that "everything happens for a reason." People usually make this point known when they are suffering an ill of some unknown origin or counseling another who is moving through a difficult situation. Some say of the god they claim to worship, "God gave me this because …
Life Lessons Made Easy
One of the greatest challenges any leader who truly cares about those around him faces is helping those for whom he is responsible to overcome mental, moral or emotional weaknesses that are preventing the full expression of their inner perfection. This responsibility devolves upon leaders of all stripes - parents, teachers, managers and more - …
The Hungers of Life III
"There are times in the life of all when, weak and worn with the struggle, the ebb-tide of hope seems to carry out with it all inspiration, all impulse, all incentive. In the darkest night of a great loss, a paralyzing pain, or a voiceless grief we seem to lose our very bearings on life, …
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