“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
What is it we can do today that when looked upon tomorrow, we will be very glad we spent that time?
Security
A few days ago I took a trip to a town in Maine where I rarely visit. For the first time in awhile, I left my cell phone and data keeper at home. It wasn’t until I had been traveling for twenty minutes that I discovered the omission. I almost ...
Teaching Facts or How to Think?
In the age of information storage, it seems as though most things worth knowing are being warehoused in places open to the public. Books, theories, encyclopedias and the parts list for my sink are there for all to see. I wonder if our reasons for teaching certain things are still ...
Observing
Just up the road from me when I lived in Litchfield, there is a spectacular bakery nestled in the kitchen of an old farmhouse called the Black Crow Bakery. The steps are rickety, the driveway muddy and the sign almost unreadable. I came close to passing it a third time ...
Necessary
About six years ago, I moved from a larger house to a much smaller apartment. I now wonder how little I can live with, not what I could live without? ...
No Corner on Wellness
Governors, Presidents and just plain citizens do great damage to themselves and others around issues of fidelity and integrity? I wonder if there is any more powerful demonstration, that the power of position and success have nothing to do with the wellness of individuals? ...
Self-Care
A client I worked with for a couple of years, a few years ago and was doing really well, called yesterday saying that everything seemed to be going to heck in a hand basket. My first question, as usual, was, “how’s your self-care going?” I’ll bet even people who have ...
Payoff for Discipline
I enjoy making fresh juice at home, in the mornings. Sometimes after I drink the juice, I clean the machine immediately. It takes less than three minutes. But other times, I get distracted, and the pulp adheres to the basket and machine parts, creating a sticky mess? I wonder how ...
A Simpler Way
Not long ago I realized that even people who have known me for many years did not know what we really do. There must be a simpler way to say that loving-kindness is the only way to access the power that resides within us all. Do you know what that ...
Perspective
My legs were killing me. I had walked the entire length of a good sized concourse at the Cleveland Hopkins Airport . I needed surgery. Sitting down felt terrific. Walking toward me was a bright-faced, young woman in her twenties with a child no more than five with the unmistakable ...
A World That Works for Everyone…
A recent advertisement announces that we can now insure our pets as well as the passengers who ride in our cars. I wonder why we have not decided to insure the poorest of our children? ...
Posted on July 21, 2017, 6:00 pm By The Boothby Institute
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