Life is hard; as anyone with the ability to read this blog can attest to, and most things worth achieving usually demand a great deal of sacrifice in order to develop fruitful rewards. On this journey to attempt to identify the behaviors and characteristics that lead to the Habits of a Flourishing Life, I cannot …
Month: July 2021
Reclaiming Conversation
After walking across campus this week under blue skies and abundant sunshine, I returned to my office and reflected that there was a little more spring in my step for some reason. Again, this buoyant feeling arose while leaving the celebration of the Top Dawg Awards, even as the rain sprinkled down from above. What …
Ball in the Cup
Who in your life is a great storyteller? Whose name comes to mind when you visualize the character with the ability to turn a phrase, to retell an incident (even one where you were present) that comes so alive with each word that you find yourself enraptured in the narrative of your own experience? Getting …
Narration Needed
As a solo traveler, I am thrilled when I locate an app like GyPSy Guide which provides “GPS narrated audio tours with stories, local tips and directions, along the route. All the benefits of a guided tour, freedom to drive yourself.” Listening to voice guidance through the car’s speakers on the Icefields Parkway in Alberta …
You Are Important
You are welcome. You are safe. You Are Important. Please picture this scenario. You and a friend are seated at a restaurant and that friend physically removes their phone from the table, placing it in a place to avoid distraction. Or perhaps, they make an intentional choice not to look at their wrist while engaged …
I’m Listening
Have you ever been in the middle of a phone call with a friend, and the need arose for you to reassure the other person by uttering a phrase such as “I’m Listening?” Because the person on the other end of that call is unable to see your face, you desire to comfort them, to …
Greener Grass
It’s the time of year when the temperatures are rising into the eighties which results in beautiful green Bermuda grass and a flourishing front lawn which receives uninhibited sun throughout the day. It’s an enjoyable process to mow, trim, and edge the yard so that it looks neat and tidy, especially when I invest the …
We’re At War
As someone who prefers to engage in healthy conflict rather than destructive division, I often struggle with the illustrations that in my spiritual life, I’m somehow at war with an enemy. I’ve never been in a physical altercation with anyone, unless of course you consider a battle of wills; then perhaps, I may have gained …
Wait, What?
Even if I opt not to create tally marks across a sheet of paper using a pen, I’m probably mentally calculating how often I hear the phrase “Wait, What?” spoken in the conversations around me. Because we live in a culture suffering from Continuous Partial Attention, I believe the frequency of this phrase being uttered …
Flourishing @ Life 