Note: For ten weeks, I am using the Dream Coaching® program to work on my dream of finishing and publishing a book about my trip to Uganda, and I am reporting on my progress in my weekly column. As always, my column is posted on my blog every Friday. To read the series from the beginning, start with the introductory post, dated May 3, 2013. I’m a lousy writer. I’m boring, repetitive, self-absorbed, and idealistic. Not only that, but my book is doomed to fail [...]
Note: For ten weeks, I am using the Dream Coaching® program to work on my dream of finishing and publishing a book about my trip to Uganda, and I am reporting on my progress in my weekly column. As always, my column is posted on my blog every Friday. To read the series from the beginning, start with the introductory post, dated May 3, 2013. I went to the Chanhassen Dinner Theatres last week to see “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” one of my [...]
Note: For ten weeks, I am using the Dream Coaching® program to work on my dream of finishing and publishing a book about my trip to Uganda, and I am reporting on my progress in my weekly column. As always, my column is posted on my blog every Friday. To read the series from the beginning, start with the introductory post, dated May 3, 2013. The third session of the Dream Coaching program is the one in which people’s hidden traits and talents really start [...]
Note: For ten weeks, I am using the Dream Coaching® program to work on my dream of finishing and publishing a book about my trip to Uganda, and I am reporting on my progress in my weekly column. As always, my column is posted on my blog every Friday. To read the series from the beginning, start with the introductory post, dated May 3, 2013. “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” There are several interpretations of that famous saying. What it says [...]
“Physician, heal thyself!” This ancient proverb isn’t just for doctors. It’s for all of us who sometimes need a reminder that we should be following our own advice, and that what we are telling or teaching others to do is exactly what we should be doing ourselves. That’s where I am right now, and what I’m preparing to do about it makes me feel vulnerable and exposed – because I’m going to be exploring and sharing in print some things about myself that I never [...]
A Facebook friend of mine – who’s also a friend in real life – posted this question recently: “What one piece of technology should be eliminated for the good of humanity?” Suggestions included the fax machine, cell phones, and Facebook. Some of the responses generated additional comments, such as the “sad but true” observation that without Facebook, civilization as we know it would crumble and fall. Several people chimed in about cell phones, noting that although they were good, they should require a license to [...]
“It was a different kind of laughter,” my friend Tabitha said to me recently. “It was the laughter of hope.” She was telling me about a phone conversation she had with some of the girls who are going to be moving into the Miracle Village we are building in Uganda. During my first visit to Uganda, in October 2011, one of the things Tabitha and I did was visit a muddy slum, not far from Uganda’s capital city, where young girls were prostituting themselves for [...]
“Where have you been all my life?” That question is probably on the Top Ten list of lousy pick-up lines, but it’s something I find myself asking – or at least thinking – whenever I come across something or someone that seems like the answer to a prayer. Or the solution to a problem or issue I’ve been working on or struggling with for a long time. Like getting organized. If you’re a regular reader of this column, you’re somewhat familiar with my ongoing efforts [...]