We’ve now spent a good amount of time reviewing the six LOVING attitudes in detail.
Most recently, we learned thatRead More
Grace Under Pressure
Without question, you’ve heard the term, grace under pressure.
If there were ever a life chapter when graciousness is called for, this is it!
According to the Oxford English Reference Dictionary, graciousness encompasses being kind, indulgent and merciful. It further alludes to “beneficence toward inferiors”.
Let’s be clear.Read More
Shift Into Neutral
How true is Mohammed Ali’s statement: “It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out, it’s the pebble in your shoe.”
Don’t I know it! Man, give me a huge crisis, and I can move through it with ease plus grace. Hand me more than oneRead More
Get intentional.
As Charles Swindoll so aptly states, “The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace.”
At work, have you ever noticed that how your “day” begins is exactly how the balance unfurls? Start out crappy, end up lousy. It’s vice versa for setting off on a positive note.
This tenet is never more accurate than whenRead More
Have YOU been made into a quivering tot?
For certain, anyone with Un-cope-able Parents knows those two seem to possess infinite power to reduce their adult children into quivering “tots” within nanoseconds. That is, unless you Read More
Humor is Possible
Consider that four-year-olds apparently laugh fifty times daily, while the typical adult guffaws only fifteen.
Now, anyone with infinitely-challenging elderly parents in the throes of drudgery would understandably scream the toil is no light-hearted matter! Including me!
My point is,Read More
Openness – LOVING Attitude No. 2
Now, this next LOVING Attitude I call Openness is a tricky balancing act.
In the Oxford English Reference Dictionary, the word open and its extensions have these following connotations: not closed or blocked up; allowing entrance or passage; accessible to new ideas and unprejudiced. In a person, it can mean frank and communicative.
Now, I’m by no means Read More
