Once again, this course, “When to Lay the Weapons Down” was written for attorneys and the lessons were loosely based around Rules for Being Human. While you may not be an attorney, this is based on how you work with the people around you, those above and below you. It is attitude, not position […]
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A LESSON IS REPEATED UNTIL LEARNED. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can then go on to the next lesson. Why on earth would anyone choose to experience substance abuse? The very words are rather silly and far too […]
THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, ONLY LESSONS. Growth is a process of trial and error: Experimentation. The “failed” experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately “works.” Take a moment and remember yourself five years ago. Are you the same person? What have you learned? Think of something that upset […]
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, […]
Part 1 can be found here. Note: Just a reminder that this was written for attorneys. Adapt and apply, the principles are the same. Each one of us is born with an inner map, an inner navigator. Our choice, no matter how we spin or weave reasons to err. It always keeps coming back to […]
YOU WILL LEARN LESSONS. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called Life. Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant and stupid. What is the point of our being here, precisely here in this time and space? Why now, […]
DP Challenge: Is it possible to be too honest, or is honesty always the best policy? They just had to ask that today, of all days… I finally buckled down this a.m. and did some serious meditation and thinking, talking inside and out loud to God. This is a new thing to chat out loud […]
I loved this and thought y’all might enjoy it as well. From “Jesus Calling” by Sarah Young for December 26: “I AM THE GIFT that continuously gives — bounteously, with no strings attached. Unconditional Love is such a radical concept that even My most devoted followers fail to grasp it fully. Absolutely nothing in heaven […]
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 […]
For two years, I was a duty officer, sometimes called a watch officer. We’re not flashing by you in screaming siren or lights streaming in the darkness alerting you to our presence. We stand watch in operations centers across the city, county, state and country, manning our areas 24/7/365 days a year. When disaster strikes, […]
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