Rule 11: You Can Remember It Whenever You Want

You Can Remember It Whenever You Want. “IF ONE ADVANCES CONFIDENTLY IN THE DIRECTION OF HIS DREAMS AND ENDEAVORS TO LIVE THE LIFE WHICH HE HAS IMAGINED, HE WILL MEET WITH SUCCESS UNEXPECTED IN COMMON HOURS.” HENRY DAVID THOREAU.   “To dream the impossible dream. To fight the unbeatable foe. To bear with unbearable sorrow. […]

Rule 10: You Will Forget All This

YOU WILL FORGET ALL THIS Relationships   One of the quickest ways to reduce stress is to understand your priorities. While accomplishment of goals is satisfying, it is the people along the way and your relationships with them that remain at the end of the day or at the end of a life well­ lived. […]

Rule 9: Your Answers Lie Inside You

YOUR ANSWERS LIE INSIDE YOU. The answers to Life’s questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen and trust. A brief word here regarding meditation. The briefest definition of meditation is a practice that quiets a person, whether it be physical, mental, emotional or spiritual aspect(s) that need quieting. Another word […]

AWOL ~ time to get back to it

Beginning back in December 2013, I published Rules for Being Human. It was so popular here that it gave me the encouragement to begin publishing chapters of a manual I had written back in 1994 for a course I taught to attorneys for the California State Bar’s Mandatory Continuing Legal Education. The name of the […]

Notes to Self – January 13, 2014

As I wrote in the first of Notes to Self, these are to clear up any confusion or questions from the AWOL manual, “When to Lay the Weapons Down,” being published serially here. Much of the manual plays off of Rules for Being Human. Because this is a blog, I break individual chapters into parts, […]

Notes to Self – January 2, 2014

Here it is, January 2, 2014 and I did not post anything about this new year or even a resolution or two. How can that be? New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, I was over at C4C – Come for Company (initially, Company for Christmas, but we’ve expanded). I had a wonderful time. Though […]

AWOL ~ To Begin With…

I announced I was going to start posting some of my manual, When to Lay the Weapons Down, and why. In truth, we are all suffering from stress of one sort or another, which is why I wrote the manual in the first place. Going with my gut, I’m going to post the manual in […]

Sometimes you just have to go AWOL

Years ago, I was certified by the State Bar of California to be a Minimum Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) provider. I chose to provide a four hour course. One of the rules was anything over an hour had to have written material to accompany the course. Mind, no specific amount of written material was specified… […]