Note: This blog was written nearly 10 years ago towards the end of 2009. I was thinking of writing about the need to slow down and found this old blog "on slowing down" in my draft outbox. God surely has a sense of humor. I suppose He's still working on this part of me. I once had a customer who was very slow about getting things done. At first, because of his slowness, I thought he didn't care, but I was wrong. …
Tag: rest
While on vacation recently, I decided to go to the pool behind the cluster of villas where we were staying. The tranquil pool was surrounded by beautiful trees draped with spanish moss. The path to the pool was a set of square concrete steps sitting atop the ground. The square steps were only about 3-4 inches apart and since my step was about 2-3 feet long, I found my bare feet regularly landing between the concrete steps onto their sharp corners. It was an frustrating and painful exercise to walk …
According to a study by Columbia University, there are significant benefits to sitting down to eat a meal as a family. The study concludes that when we eat more meals sitting down together good things happen. …”everyone eats healthier meals, kids are less likely to be obese, smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol, try marijuana….their grades will improve, they’ll talk more…there will be less stress and tension at home and your child will feel like you’re proud of them….” Just as …
According to research, the average American is bombarded by somewhere between 247 to 850 commercial messages per day. Some research puts the number near 3,000 messages per day. Do all these messages have an effect on you? How do you react to such a massive earful telling us to….”Get it now!”, “Have it now!”, “Get thin!”, “Invest here!”, “Buy it here!”? Such a huge number of messages tend to make me consider one of two things: 1) I do …