The First Thanksgiving Thanksgiving is a special time of year for giving thanks as we reflect on all God has given us. The cliche is that everything is great, therefore I praise God. When the harvest is in, the table is full, and we have no apparent lack of anything. What about when the harvest…
Category: Weekly Wanderings
I will post occasionally on whatever I’m learning, dreaming, or thinking about in the moment.
“What’s The Most Important Thing I Need To Do Today?
What’s Most Important? I love Essentialism by Greg McKeown. He asks lots of great questions in the book that help to determine what really matters. Here’s one: “What’s the most important thing I need to do today?” The answer is ONE thing that if done would make a satisfactory day. A Story About This Important…
Unexpectedly Grateful
I’m in pain right now, and also someone grateful. My pain is better than it has been for the last few days, even though it is still worse than usual. That mild reduction in pain is a cause for gratitude. I am not always grateful that these reprieves but I should be. Losing something, or…
Writing, Living, and Resting
I used to write about life a lot more than I really invested in living it. I have some catch-up work to do in living by the principles I’ve preached. That catch-up work may occupy my attention to the point that I may not write here as much. You may have already noticed this in…
Motivation Doesn’t Matter Without Implementation
Being Specific “How?” is a universal and often neglected question. What follows is my opinion that I consider fact. Students don’t need to hear ” behave yourself”, or “do your best”. They need to hear “sit quietly and don’t poke anyone”, and “work through sections 1 through 4. If you don’t understand anything, ask me…
What’s Easy Gets Done
What’s easy gets done. What’s something important you could make easier? What’s the very next step? Josh
Try Something New-Old
The New-Old Things I’ve really gotten into “new-old” things recently. As I’ve been paring down my possessions, I realized I was not engaging with some of my favorite things. In the quest for something new, I forgot what I already had. That led me to explore not only my “new-old” things, but also old hobbies…
Preview: Nothing Needs to Change
I had an unusually busy Sunday so I’ll just give you a preview for now: I don’t need anything to change for me to be happy. That’s a realization I had earlier this week. There’s so many things I feel like I should do or be, but even if I do none of them; am…
Is There a Lesson to Be Learned Here?
I think we miss out on a lot of wisdom by dismissing ideas that are extreme or that don’t work for us without adapting them. Extreme Minimalism I listened to a book by an extreme minimalist who got rid of almost all his stuff and lives in a ~200 sq. ft. apartment. Am I going…
Subtractive Solutions: When Less is More
Subtractive Solutions They did a study where experimenters added an unnecessary brick to a lego house that unbalanced the roof. The participants’ job was was to fix the house. The solution is simple, just remove the extra brick. But most participants opted for the most difficult solution: Adding an additional brick under every other corner…