In the past couple of months I have embraced some important things about myself, namely: These insights are useful in understanding my past behavior as well as in guiding me forward. Up…
Category: Personal Growth
Day 360: Focus Where It Feels Best
One thing I am getting good at is just withdrawing my attention from situations I don’t want to focus on. I was taught the opposite: be nice, be good, if someone is…
Day 356: Take Your Happiness Into Your Own Hands (1000th Post!)
If there’s one consistent thread throughout this blog, it’s that feel I show up authentically in every post. To me, this is no small thing. Throughout my life, there were situations where…
Day 351: Some Honesty About Tonight’s Outing
Tonight my wife and I went to see “The Addams Family” musical at Music Circus. It was a good play, I feel happy and entertained afterward, which means the show did its…
Day 350: Inspired Action Over Habit
Good habits are awesome. Yet even good habits can’t substitute for being present, checking in with yourself, and seeing what fits for you right now. Sometimes the best routines need to give…
Day 345: More on Mental Attitude
(This is a continuation of a post I wrote a few months ago.) Your mental attitude, especially about yourself, is all important. As a piano teacher, I study mental attitude all the…
Day 344: Put Your Happiness First
You must put yourself first in order to be happy. If you leave it to chance, or leave it to someone else to figure out what you need, you will almost surely…
Day 342: Facing the Music
As I embrace my highly-sensitive nature, I think it’s time that I also embrace a certain word. There’s nothing wrong with this word, but apparently I resisted claiming this word as part…
Day 340: Solitude, My Steady State
Over the past few days I have had a breakthrough in accepting my highly-sensitive nature. Incidentally, I have written things on this blog I’m not sure I ever admitted even to myself…
Day 339: Time to Make Peace with Being Highly-Sensitive
Judging by my post yesterday, I am still learning to be nice to myself 🙂 After all, being highly sensitive is not a crime, not a deficiency, not a flaw. Something good…