I spent the majority of Today writing (Author’s Note: I was drafting this on Thursday). I was looking forward to it. I had planned for it: I had the day off work and I could spend that time doing what I wanted, and I wanted to get some writing done. Needless to say, at the …
Welcome, everyone to another installment of Five Thing Thursday and… Here are Five Things I want you to Know: Thing #1: #DailyDelights is starting to show results. I’m more “There” more often during the day. What’s more, other folk are starting to respond when a particular Daily Delight strikes them Thing #2: I think this …
Today I want to talk about an idea that I came across while listening to The Happiness Lab Podcast with Dr. Laurie Santos. The idea is a simple one: Find one thing each day that delights you. The “Rules” are equally simple: If it delights you, it counts. There’s no sliding scale. There is no …
Welcome, everyone to another installment of Five Thing Thursday and… Here are Five Things I want you to Know: Thing #1: Take the time over the next week to try and spot at least one thing that delights you each day. It doesn’t have to be major. I’ll go first: Sinking a ball of paper …
I’ve said it before here, but there are times where I’m not just talking to you, Reader. Sometimes I use this platform for myself. This past fortnight has been a mess. Developments at the day job have kept me in complete Emergency/Damage control mode 100% of the time and things on the home front have …
Welcome, everyone to another installment of Five Thing Thursday and… Here are Five Things I want you to Know: Thing #1: This past weekend, Sara Cox became the first female referee to oversee a European Premiereship Rugby Match. Well done! And I hope there’s more to come. Thing #2: Yesterday I hosted my friends JeanRabe …
Hey there, Everyone! This week, I’ve got the great pleasure to host my friends, Jean Rabe and Donald J Bingle! If you’ve been following them on Twitter (This is a good idea. You can find them @donaldjbingle and @jeanerabe then you know that they’ve got a new book out, called: The Love-Haight Case Files, Book 2: …
I am 51 years old. Over the course of two days, I have stacked nearly 300 bales of hay. By hand. For those of you not familiar, these are square bales – close to 3 or 3.5 feet long maybe a foot and a half wide (Yes, I know that’s not a square, but that’s …
Welcome, everyone to another installment of Five Thing Thursday and… Here are Five Things I want you to Know: Thing #1: Check out Rina Sawayama’s cover of Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” You can find it here. It’s Awesome! Thing #2: It’s raining outside my window as I’m typing this and it’s the most soothing sound. Thing …
Ideas can come form anywhere. The idea for this post came from a rugby podcast I was listening to, earlier in the week. Which Rugby Podcast, you ask? It was The Good, the Bad, and the Rugby podcast. You can find it here. And it went like this: One of the guests said, “When you …