I’m gonna… “I’m gonna…” is a big lie. It is a lie to yourself, to your family and friends, and to the world. Why? Because it is in the future. The future isn’t real. The future leaves room for putting things off till tomorrow. The future is beyond the scope…
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No Holding Back
No holding back. What do I mean by that? Well, it is a bit of a long history with me. I’m 62 years old now and one has to ask the question of whether it is plausible to return to being the person I originally was from birth. Is it…
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A Burden has been lifted.
A burden has been lifted off of my shoulder. What burden? The burden of trying to understand life, why I am the way I am, if there is something wrong with me, and trying to figure out why I am underperforming in life. There is nothing to figure out. That…
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What’s the Work?
There is but one answer to every problem and that is “Work”. But, what is the “Work”? This weekend I signed up for a three-day, 10 hours per day, seminar online. It was to give me the thing I was wondering about myself. It came highly recommended and was from…
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I have promises to keep…
I have promises to keep… There are some poems that wake you up in school and stick with you for the rest of your life. “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost is one of those poems. While there are many phrases in this poem one that…
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Forever Content: Who knows what I’ll think about something in 20 years?
Who knows what I’ll think about something in 20 years? I certainly don’t. In fact, the set of things I will be thinking about will be completely different than what I think about today in 2022. So, my thoughts today are just that, today’s thoughts. I have no idea if…
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What is wrong with the world?
What is wrong with the World? This probably won’t be the most positive of posts. I apologize for that. But, as I look at the world today I have to say that as I see it the outlook is not very encouraging for the future. But, maybe by looking at…
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Starting at the Top of the Ladder
When I was a member of the Chautauqua Opera Studio & Apprentice program back in the summers of 1986 and 1987 the Artistic Director of the Chautauqua Opera was Cynthia Auerbach. She did a master class one day talking about the career in opera and one thing she said rang…
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Getting Back to Writing Blogs
I first started blogging when I originally started my first Boredom to Brilliance website back in 2011 or so. I didn’t know what I was doing. It was not really a blog at all, but a long website page with posts on it and it always showed the oldest post…
Peak Experiences is Found Only Through Intense Effort
Peak Experiences in life are rare to most people and it always is created by intense effort. My father’s PhD in Education Psychology often gave me clues about some things in life that I discovered I wanted. Peak experiences is one thing I always sought, but did not really know…