about 2 weeks ago - No comments
The sandwich board sign in the mall is new. “Stun guns on sale now.” Self designed life means taking responsibility for one’s internal state. Usually this works out, because as hard as we try to get other people to do what we want, they do not listen. But what if we had more power? This is where
about 3 weeks ago - No comments
The big fat face slapping tool ought to come with your computer. Dateline: Threadgill’s Local Branch Office. Setting: Old black and white movie. Woman has just discovered a murder. The woman screams, flipping her head side to side, flailing her arms. A man strides up to face her, takes her by the shoulders and slaps her
about 2 months ago - No comments
The “Woman Who Couldn’t Stop Therapy” Incident Dateline: Hilton World Headquarters Branch, San Francisco. The Scene: A writers’ conference, the ballroom of the Intercontinental Mark Hopkins Hotel…high on Nob Hill. The room is magic. The guest speaker is to be a woman whose memoir (The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, How My Mother Raised 10
about 3 months ago - No comments
Okay, guys, Anxiety Management Pop Quiz Challenge. Tomorrow… Okay, that’s asking too much. Pick a day next week. A sudden change in your personality could lead friends and relatives to the wrong conclusion. You know…bring up that troublesome branch of the family…and how you do look just like Aunt Franny…you know, when you get that
about 4 months ago - No comments
Which is more important? The world that exists, the one you can touch? Or the one you are responding to? The world you are making up in your head?”
about 5 months ago - No comments
Are You a Bitcher or a Whiner? How to Be Annoying, Part 2.
about 5 months ago - No comments
When I left Austin for Columbia, South Carolina, expecting a three hour flight, I’d already begun salivating on the lovely room service I’d order around 7. Filet, medium, Caesar side salad, and a baked potato. The restaurant in the Hilton, I knew was a Ruth’s Chris…so…ah… (sound of trumpets). When I arrived in Columbia, South
about 5 months ago - No comments
Even immature people learn to fly.
about 6 months ago - No comments
Remember, our goal is to work toward improved emotional functioning…to have our actions (inward and outward) be more and more determined by our Best Thinking…that is our Thinking Guidance System…and less and less have our actions determined by emotional pressure from other people or from within ourselves…our Emotional Guidance System.
about 6 months ago - No comments
Airline travel stress. Maybe I’m just too immature to fly.