As I recently stated, I started going to therapy. My decision to be open about going to therapy isn’t a ploy to gain concern of my well-being, but to hopefully help others understand that you don’t have to be broken to be in therapy. We will go to a doctor for anything from something acute …
Category: Personal Development
G. R. A. T. E. F. U. L.
Hello everybody! I have a late night, nearing the end of the week, follow up to my previous post. If you read it, you know there are some things I've concluded I need to work on. A few main ones are having faith, being grateful, and being myself. I've been playing with something in my …
Fun, Finding Your Passion, Faulty Views on Education, and Forrest Gump
"Now, because I had been a football star, and a war hero, and a national celebrity, and a shrimpin' boat captain, and a college graduate, the city of fathers of Greenbow, Alabama, decided to get together and offered me a fine job. So, I never went back to work for Lieutenant Dan. Though he did …
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Comfort Zone
"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone." -Neale Donald Walsch **WARNING: Picture Overload Ahead** Camping in Joshua Tree National Park The year was 2014. I went camping for the first time in years, went back to school, started eating pizza with sauce, rode a horse, which I hadn't done in 10 years, got …
Comparison and Competition
“Comparison is the thief of joy.” -Theodore Roosevelt I hate to say it, but insecurity reared its ugly head again the other day. I’ve gotten better at detecting it and stopping it at the source (comparison), but unfortunately, I’m not perfect and not immune to it weaseling its way in to my mind from time …
Find, Define, Identify
What is the difference between a person finding themselves and a person defining themselves? Some coworkers and I were discussing this today without coming to much of a conclusion. When I was trying to “find myself”, I figured if I could define myself that would give me a clear enough direction. I noticed, however, that …
Goals: 26
Things have been busy lately and it’s made me think about the things I miss having the time to do most. Writing, working on projects, exercising, getting my hands dirty working in the yard, doing puzzles, dancing around, cooking or baking. I’d even add reading to that list, though, if I had all of the …
Grow 🌱
Summer is just around the corner and I’m finally getting around to writing a post I had in mind for springtime. I was going to take the opportunity to talk about my love for spring, how excited I was to work in my garden, and how the sweet sounds of baseball would be back. Since …
Thankful
As 2017 came to an end, like many others, I began to reflect on the past year. Earlier I turned to my journal which has become the greatest keepsake of all my struggles and hopes that I encountered this year. I began to write about all of the big things that happened this year: starting …
Gifts
“Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.”-Marcus Aurelius 🤔 Somewhat piggy backing off of my post from last week. That’s what happens when you’ve been baking all morning and completely forget you were going to write a blog post. …
