Questions for reflection!
Why is quiet solitude such an elusive goal? Is it a popular or desired objective for many? Is the pursuit of quiet and solitude worthwhile or something to avoid? How can someone benefit from solitude and from silence?
Read More Quiet? Solitude?Does it often seem that we make decisions, take action and make plans, while focusing on the immediate or short-term benefits that we expect or that could result? Are the potential long-term effects sometimes ignored or maybe not even considered? Does such an approach lead to unwanted and unexpected consequences?
Read More Long-Term vs. Short-TermWhat instigates the great game of second guessing? Sometimes, is it the realization that decisions are producing unwanted and maybe unnecessary results? At other times, does second guessing actually occur before the results are even known?
Read More Second-Guessing?What makes team sports so intriguing to participants and fans? Are people drawn to the excitement of great competition? Do they appreciate the teamwork that is often displayed? Is the dual influence of competition and cooperation exhibited in team sports a lesson for all of us, in our own lives? Is it only about winning and losing, as hyped so much by the media? In actuality, are their more values demonstrated and more lessons to be learned?
Read More TEAMWORK? Hockey?Upon reflection, do most of us realize how much we value and appreciate our teachers and what they helped us to learn? Would this include not only those who taught us during our formal education, but others from whom we learned or are learning? If learning is a process, do we continue to gain new teachers and new insights as we live our lives?
Read More the Impact of Teachers?How do we know? In the current contentious state of our culture and society and with the seeming lack of any accountability on social media, how do we discern fact from opinion, the accurate thought from the inaccurate?
Read More Discernment?What does it mean to be consistent? What develops from inconsistency? Why is consistency important? Is consistency the habit of succss?
Read More Constitency?What is the key to overcoming this feeling of being overwhelmed? Could it perhaps be accepting the feeling instead of denying it or trying to fight against it? Once we accept it could we find some action step, however small, that would get us headed in the right direction?
Read More Overcome Being Overwhelmed!Why is it so difficult for us to accept what it is or what it has become? If we deny reality, are we, in essence, trying to fight the universe? Whether it is the weather, scientific discoveries or pandemics, why do people challenge the universe?
Read More the universe?Who are you? Do you know? Do you want to know? How can you discover that?
Read More YOU? The real You?
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