Posts Tagged ‘Mindset’
Day 049: America Has Been a Great Place to Experience Trauma
Trauma happens everywhere. It’s inescapable. Whether your trauma is heavy and early, like in the case of child abuse or molestation or older and natural like the decline and loss of a parent, trauma is universal and will hit us all at some point. As I wrote yesterday’s post expressing my gratitude for those we…
Read MoreDay 044: Living Not Ordinary to Live Not Ordinary
God blessed us with the gift of common sense. When we access that gift, it becomes easier to understand that it is through the very act of Living Not Ordinary that we learn to Live Not Ordinary. No matter how much we read about and study the feats of others, at some point we must…
Read MoreDay 030: It’s Okay to Mourn Even Years Later
May 10th is a historically difficult day for me. It’s crazy that with 365 days in a year, my two worst days both fell on the same date 13 years apart. What’s worse is the day’s connection to Mother’s Day and the celebration my family and I should be having. On May 10th, two days…
Read MoreDay 029: Having Faith in the Present
The last few years have been a series of dumpster fires on every corner. I don’t need to go into all the bad stuff because, whether considering the state of America and the whole world, the Church, our families, or even our own souls, the awake know how bad things are already. The world is…
Read MoreDay 028: Learning to Love the Past – No Matter What Your Past Held
I’ve been Blessed to have talked with and even met in person some truly incredible people. What makes these people incredible is not their wealth. Many of them have little material wealth. Some continue to struggle financially. It is not their stunning good looks, although they tend to glow with a stunningly beautiful presence radiating…
Read MoreDay 027: What to do When You Don’t Know What to Do
I had no idea what Live, Not Ordinary meant last year when I got in my car and drove across America. I just knew our country was a mess and there was way too much division, negativity, and hate going on in the world. I knew from personal experience how easy it is to complain…
Read MoreDay 025: Sometimes it Works, Sometimes You’re Humbled
Yesterday I was driving to work thinking about how beautiful the world is. I was thinking of Live, Not Ordinary and how much I could write about mindset and goodness and how wonder of the world! I questioned how anyone could lack inspiration or be unable to write about such things. Then I tried to…
Read MoreDay 022: The Meaning You Give Your Life
Wanting to understand the meaning of life is a question mankind has asked for as far back as history books go and probably before that, yet answers seem to be sorely lacking in modern psychology. The basic human need of knowing the purpose of our lives has been left out of many works which shape…
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