I’ve Been Thinking About Death Lately

Not in the morbid, “is it my time” way.  But more in the “where is my life going and what have I done with the time I’ve had” way. That’s not always a welcome idea in our culture.  Death.  We spend much of our time trying to avoid...

Choose Better

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”  – Viktor Frankl Pain.  Guilt.  Death.  Frankl called them...

86,400 Hours of Work

If you graduated from high school at the age of 18, went to college and graduated in four years, then went out into the real world and got a real job working 40 hours a week and you worked forty-eight weeks a, took four weeks’ annual vacation (two weeks more...

When Stress is Good for You

I’ve been having this conversation quite a lot lately, so I thought maybe I’d share it with you.  Let me know what you think. Viktor Frankl tells us in Man’s Search for Meaning, “I consider it a dangerous misconception of mental hygiene to...