Blogging is Like Life…

Posted on 26. Mar, 2010 by in The Goo Blog

Blogging is a lot like life.

There are basic defining elements like what language do you speak and how well do you write, but all in all we can pretty much make what we want of it.

About the only rule of blogging I know of is (more…)

The Storm

Posted on 24. Mar, 2010 by in The Goo Blog

Morning after the storm

Last night I went downtown to take a bus to meet a friend for a concert in Denver. As I was walking to the station, it started to snow. I knew snow was expected, but have never seen it hit like this.

It went from no snow, only rain, to at least two inches an hour. I gauged this rate of snowfall on the fact that when I got on the bus there was hardly any snow on the ground and when I got off the bus two hours and forty-five minutes later there was 6 – 8 inches on the ground. Heavy, wet, slippery Spring snow. (more…)

Hello Misery, let me see when I can fit you in my schedule

Posted on 20. Mar, 2010 by in The Goo Blog

I was just talking with a friend of mine who was having a hard time due to an old boyfriend who was back in town.

She was going through the standard mental gyrations of :  What if I run into him?  What will I say?  I don’t want to get involved with him again.? Etc.  She was miserable.

As the conversation continued, she said something that I found profound.  She said, “ I am really busy right now with work, I don’t have time for this.” (more…)

Taking the day off

Posted on 18. Mar, 2010 by in The Goo Blog

I decided to take the day off and go play in the mountains yesterday.  I was so excited to go play that I did not sleep well the night before.  All the ideas and plans for how I would make the most of the day were rifling through my head.

I woke early to make the most of the Spring sunshine and found myself so tired I had to lay back down.  So much for plan number one of starting early.

Once I finally woke up and got the day started I decided to head to a local hot springs for a soak.  I booked an hour in a private bath figuring that would be a good prelude to an early afternoon of hiking or snow shoeing in the mountains. (more…)

Everything You Do is Right Day

Posted on 16. Mar, 2010 by in The Goo Blog

Everything You Do is Right Day just might be a perfect day. Life is filled with ups and downs. Some days are good days. Some days are bad days. Most often, there’s both good and bad in any given day. You take lifes ups and downs with a grain of salt. Every once in a while, a day comes along where everything you do goes well…..the perfect day!  To find out more click here.

This sounds like the ultimate optimists holiday doesn’t it?  But what if everything we did was right everyday?   (more…)

Taking a Break From Frustration

Posted on 10. Mar, 2010 by in The Goo Blog

Have you ever had one of those days where you felt like you weren’t getting anything accomplished?  I do.  In fact I had one of those days yesterday.

I wanted to get things done.  In fact there were lots of things I wanted to accomplish yesterday, but I couldn’t seem to make headway on any of them.

The harder I tried, the more frustrated I became.  So, naturally, I tried harder.  I was going to push my way through this and get something done. (more…)

Just another ordinary week…or was it?

Posted on 08. Mar, 2010 by in The Goo Blog

I was chatting with a friend on Friday when they asked a fairly standard question.  “How was your week?”  And in my standard unthinking way I said, “Oh it was fine, nothing special.”

Then I started to think.  Was that true?  Had it been just another ordinary week?

I called up the calendar on my computer and took a look. (more…)

You Never Know…

Posted on 04. Mar, 2010 by in The Goo Blog

As I was sending out notices about my radio show premiering via email last week, I received a number of undeliverable notices.  I was not surprised.  In light of the recent economic upheaval many folks who I only had work email addresses for were no longer employed where I thought they were.  But for some reason one notice I received made me want to dig.

It was a notice that my email to a woman named Cheryl Glassner had permanent errors and would not be delivered.   (more…)

Blah, blah, blah…

Posted on 03. Mar, 2010 by in The Goo Blog

Have you ever been in a conversation or at a presentation and all you heard was, “blah, blah, blah…blah, blah…blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.”  It was like you were listening to the teacher’s voice in one of those Charlie Brown cartoons.  What do you think when you hear this?  Is it annoying?  Insulting?  A waste of your time?

This blah, blah, blah is often what we hear when we are not being present.  So it is not that the speaker is annoying you or insulting you or wasting your time.  YOU ARE! (more…)

“Can’t Never Did Anything.”

Posted on 28. Feb, 2010 by in The Goo Blog

When I was growing up, anytime I told my Dad that I can’t do something, he would reply, “can’t never did anything.”  And as annoying as that was to hear I knew he was right.

Think about it.  Name one thing that has ever been attributed to “can’t.”

The Wright brothers had a bicycle shop.  Why were they the first ones who succeeded in developing motorized flight?  It certainly was not because they told themselves we can’t.  They did not ask why are we qualified to pursue this?  They just asked how to do it and kept going until they found the answer.

It is said that Thomas Edison failed over 1,000 times before he discovered the incandescent light bulb.  He had over 1,000 opportunities to say “I can’t” but he didn’t because “can’t never did anything.” (more…)

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