Personal Development with Gray Miller
Stress is a funny word. We load it with all kinds of negative connotations, talk about relieving it, coping with it, or even having an idea of a “stress-free” life. Really? Think about that for a moment; would you really want a “stress-free” life? Where you never had the satisfaction of accomplishing a goal, overcoming …
Notice the title of this post is not “Making Time for the Things You Love”. You can’t make time. Nobody can; it’s the one truly egalitarian resource, where everyone gets the same amount and uses it in the same way. Which means, when I say to myself I don’t have the time to do… and …
The very generous folks over at Freedom Mastery have given me a gorgeous “Law of Attraction” planner to try out and review for them. This is not that review. But it is gorgeous. It’s also really hard. Specifically, before you get into the fun of daily schedules and priorities and such, there’s these…exercises. A series …
I’ve only got 20 minutes to write this post. That’s a signal. Yesterday I went to pick up Natasha from her work, and we got all the way home when she realized she’d left her purse there. That’s a signal. I’ve been having dreams about being at events that weren’t well organized. About missing appointments. …
This is a freelance contribution by Jane Sandalwood. It’s a nice little encapsulation of the kinds of things we talk about more in depth here on Love Life Practice. Stress is a trigger for so many issues – especially in terms of the toll it takes on living your best life, while trying to practice …
I’m enjoying reading Cory Doctorow’s new book, Walkaway. It’s a near-future thriller that starts out seeming dystopian but is really utopian; ultimately optimistic about the future in which 3-D printing and centuries of industrialism have left a world where people choose to “walk away” from the hustle-and-bustle of consumerism and just kind of live in …
Here’s the thing about stress: it sometimes helps people accomplish amazing things. I’m not just talking about the proverbial mother lifting a truck off their child; I’m talking about the parent who stumbles down the basement stairs to put the sheets in the laundry at 3am after their sick child has finally gone to sleep; …
OK, we're going to change pace here a bit from the sturm und drang prepper stuff to to a good old-fashioned product review. After all, the tag line of this blog is "practical tools for making hard times happier", right? Well, here are some practical tools I've been using for the past year or so …
A while back I wrote a short story for an editor for an anthology. She liked the story, but she had one complaint: the anthology was supposed to be focused on romance, and there wasn’t enough of that between my main characters. It puzzled me, because I thought I had put in romance. Or, at least, …
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