At the end of my street there is a tree that I pass by everyday. It stands alone at the edge of the corner inviting my gaze to look upon it for a few still moments. Since I’ve moved here I’ve witnessed the transformation this tree has undergone through the different seasons. When I first…
Category: Inspiration
Live The Questions
I think one of the hardest things in my life has been trying to live a productive forward walking life when I have so many unanswered questions. There are many times when I just want to know what lies ahead, if things are going to be okay, and so forth. I feel a lot of…
INSPIRING: Autistic Boy Plays High School Basketball
“After years of fetching water, and toweling off other peoples’ sweat, Jason was actually in a game…” This is one of the most touching sports stories that I have ever seen. Jason, an autistic boy who helped encourage his high school basketball team, was finally able to play in a game. The result is not…
O, To Be A Tailor
On a regular basis my clients leave the Tonto National Forest and head home. They worked so hard to become a new person—to give themselves and others—a new beginning. There is no disillusionment that things will be easy. They have become a square peg that will no longer fit in the “round hole world” they…
A Guy Who Didn’t Give Up
“Never underestimate what you can accomplish when you believe in yourself.” This is an incredible video. Watch it and discover how it might apply to you. Keep moving forward!
The Power of Encouragement
I’ve always been impressed by the power of encouraging someone—by using our words to inspire someone to believe in themselves. I recently finished reading How to Win Friends and Influence People. In it, Dale Carnegie shares this touching story: “In the early nineteenth century, a young man in London aspired to be a writer. But everything…
Different & Unique
The above quote, looking just like it does here, is pinned up on the cork board in my office. I don’t usually point to it or even talk about comparison with my clients in my office but I started to realize something. After a few weeks of working one client they mentioned the…
What Would You Write About?
I am a writer. Not because I’m published, not because I have blogged for 6+ years, not because I have written in some kinds of journal since I was 9 years old. I’m a writer because I was born a writer. Because I’m passionate about it! As a writer I often end up talking to…
Forward Through the Fog
“Hey Seth! How are things in sunny California?” Rich asked on the phone. “Sunny California? We live in Mordor,” I answered, glumly looking out the window at a seemingly endless curtain of fog that hovered around our home in San Francisco. To be fair, we don’t live in Mordor (the mythical kingdom of the evil…