Five Must-have Character Traits

What kind of person are you? Can it be rightly said that you are a person of integrity? Are you an honest person or a liar? Are you forthcoming, or deceiptful? Are you diligent or lazy? Humble or proud? Wise or foolish? Selfless or selfish?

How Do You Eat an Elephant?

Most things require baby steps to see large things accomplished. Just like the joke asks: How do you eat an elephant?

Punch-line: One bite at a time.

That's how the light bulb was created, the plane invented, the atom split -- one step, one experiment, one more try at a time.

Games are won one hit, one out, one run at a time. Great pieces of art are painted one brush stroke at a time and soaring scores of music are written just one note, one stanza, one movement at a time.

And that's how lives and character is built and reshaped and reinforced: One day, one triumph, one goal, one step at a time.

Keep that in mind as you find yourself struggling your way through life! Even life itself can only be lived, but one moment at a time.

In 10 years, you will be 10 years older. But will you be wiser, smarter, richer, better, thinner, healthier? Take the next step. Just one. You don't need to worry about achieving anything. You are merely stepping forward. So step!

Set a goal. Work to acheive it. Let nothing stand in your way that shouldn't. You will likely make strides toward acheiving it. Then, when satisfied, choose another trait and work on that. Then find yet another.

A Case for New Year Resolutions

I’m going to lose 15 pounds this year! I’m going to read 15 books this year! I’m going to stop smoking or start running or stop eating donuts or start eating whole wheat bran muffins! I’m going to stop yelling so much at the kids (or my spouse, or the neighbor, or my mom, or the dog)! I’m going to get a job or quit my job or advance within my job or go back to school so I can get my dream job or turn my current hobby into a job! I’m going to stop this or start that or change these or develop those!

Life: the larger context

Welcome to my take on life. I guess I’ve just been itching to record and express what I observe around me, to interpret it, make meaning of it, and fit it into the larger context of life.