Ponder Today

How do you know?

I’m often concerned if I am doing the “right thing.” I don’t want to make a “mistake” and find myself regretting a decision. Because of this fear, it takes a ridiculous amount of time and anxiety for me to make decisions; some of the choices being extremely trivial. I’m also a people-pleaser, which creates…

Gut Feelings

(Originally posted on September 9, 2015)

I trust my gut.

This trust has been nurtured and well earned over many years. I have paid attention when it has warned me, and experimented to find out how accurate it is. There have been times that I have felt…

Habits

(Originally posted on September 8, 2015)

Habits are hard.

I want to create a habit of writing every day, which is one of the main reasons I started this site. I want to be the type of person that takes some time every day to practice writing. This means that I…

Uncertainty

(Originally posted on August 27, 2015)

Life is full of many types of uncertainty. What will the weather be like tomorrow? Who will win the world series? Will the new Star Wars be any good? But the hardest type of uncertainty for me is the uncertainty of self. What should I be…

One Way Street

(Originally posted on August 16, 2015)

So is life a one way street? My answer is yes, and it’s a good thing too. You can only go one way, forward, and never backward.

This sounds like a really negative thing to most people. But it is actually a good…

Serendipity

(Originally posted on August 15, 2015)

Does it really matter if something happens by accident or by design? Does it matter if some master hand is arranging things for our benefit? Does it matter if there is no one up there that cares for us, and we are at the mercy of random…

Goals

(Originally posted on August 8, 2015)

Goals. The very word makes me go “meh”. I’ve never been a goals person, but I still technically have goals. I mean I’ve never liked the goals that sound like “I want to lose 10 pounds this year”, or “I want to run a 5k”, or “I want to learn to play the…