More things to look at

Some more pictures I took late this summer

I want to be so many things. One thing that gives me joy is taking pictures. I don't post them often though. Perhaps I will start to.

Battle of wits

I miss my Princess Bride DVD

Here I am

It has been a stressful week. I got sick right after Fred got sick and it has been pretty hard, but we are on the up swing. I like the up swing.
I have decided that I want to be a writer. Which is strange because I've always wanted to be a writer but now I really want to be a writer.
Also the joyful thing is My Lift seminar is on Friday Dec 7 and I am so excited to get to it. I think it will be wonderful. Like I said things are on the up swing.
Please excuse my lack of editing I am on my way to bed.

As a Man Thinketh James Allan

Mind is the master power that moulds and makes,
and Man is Mind and evermore he takes
The tools of Thought, and shaping what he wills,
Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills:-
He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass:
Environment is but his looking glass.

I am still here

I am still here. I haven't left. I was at an amazing seminar in Lethbridge. It was from the Arbinger Institute. They wrote the books "Leadership and Self Deception" and "Anatomy of Peace" I've only read the first book and planning to read the second when I attract a copy into my life.
It was life changing. I really recommend those books. It can change the way you look at everything, your children, your spouse, yourself. And the beautiful thing is they don't change you do.
They have a small booklet journal type thing call 30 days to better children and its a journal you write in positive things about your kids. Everyday for a month. I have done 2 whole days now and see a difference. So good.
So theres my plug for the day "Read those Books", and the world will improve because you will.
I am going to go over my notes everyday for the 30 days as well to try and keep motivated. I am finding myself returning to the boxes I need to banish.

A Love Affair

I have discovered a new love. I like to call them books. Some are written by men and some are written by women. I have been a bit upset and nervous about the upcoming events in my life and a good book can usually put it all in perspective. One line from a great and wonderful book can put so much in line that you are able to go on and relax you know life will be OK. "that book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend." Louis L'Amour.
The ones I am particularly enjoying right now are the ones written by Louis L'Amour. He has written many many books, most of them westerns. I have been trying to read the Sackett series which are good and bad at the same time. Good because you can learn a lot from them, and bad because when I pick one up I tend to forget the house. But luckily enough most of them are thin enough I can finish them in one day, with the welcome interruptions of runny noses, poopy bums, and meals. Laundry on a Sackett day forget it.
I am reading right now Louis L'Amour's Autobiography "Education of a Wandering Man" What a great book and I am only on chapter 3. I have been having epiphanies one after the other.
Is reading a book about learning facts or learning about yourself? I think if you read a book and are better for it then you are getting an education.
"If I were asked what education should give, I would say it should offer breadth of view, ease of understanding, tolerance for others, and a background from which the mind can explore in any direction. Education should provide the tools for a widening and deepening of life, for increased appreciation for all one sees or experiences. It should equip a person to live life well, to understand what is happening about him, for to live life well one must live with awareness" Louis L'Amour "Education of a Wandering Man"
I have been searching for what education means to me and here he sums it up and 3 sentences.
I have not been this epiphenated (for lack of a better word) since I read Viktor Frankle's "Mans Search for Meaning"
So for those of you out there this is a borrowed book and Christmas is coming ....hint hint.