For a long time, I’ve been aware of the most obvious form of addiction in my family: alcoholism. First of all, because Mom drank. A lot. And so did Mom’s dad and some of Mom’s brothers. A lot. Once it spirals out of the societally-determined safe zone, alcohol addiction gets obvious fast, what with all the [...]
procrastination
After almost 48 years on the planet, many of them splashed over with big, fatty dreams, I know this: the more you want something, and the more it is the Next Right Thing for you to be doing, the harder you will push away from it. It’s sort of a glorious indicator, really. I mean, [...]
Ask any self-help guru and they’ll tell you straight up: getting there is equal parts thinking and doing: thinking, to figure things out and doing, to, well, to do the damned things. Of course, if it was easy, we’d all be there, right? Happy, graceful and accomplished, speaking five or six languages as we waved [...]
