03.23.07
Posted in General at 1:09 pm by Steve
Sometimes you get those road signs in life that let you know you’re still on the right track. Here are some of the more recent ones in my life:
A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.
If you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you have always gotten.
I was dead with deciding, afraid to choose. I was mourning the loss of the choices I’d lose.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
You are lost the minute you know what the result will be.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage.
And so I go to contemplate another choice. And I pray that my choice reflects my life as it should be and not as others think it should be. In the end life is all about the journey…I mean…we already know the destination.
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03.15.07
Posted in Friends & Family at 7:45 pm by Steve
So I had a long talk with a very good friend last night…and it’s amazing how sometimes it’s those who know us best that have the ability to put things into perspective and remind us of who we really are. What is even more amazing is that for such intelligent animals, we seem to forget or misinterpret a lot of simple truths about ourselves at a frequency that makes me think that maybe we aren’t as intelligent as we would like to believe.
I guess over years of changing and growing there are some basic truths that never change, no matter what we want to believe or who we mistakenly listen to…we are who we are. The problem seems to be when we forget those truths and imagine that we are something (or someone) else.
As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said:
a friend may be well reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Thanks again Bro’…and yes…the title means what you think it means 
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03.14.07
Posted in General at 12:24 am by Steve
The past several months have been a time a (re)discovery for me. And with that rediscovery has come a lot of change. Changes at home, changes in my personal life and changes in my professional life. The most profound changes have really come to the surface as I have been reading a book called The Artist’s Way. And while I don’t agree 100% with everything in the book (I never do, so that’s not much of a surprise), I will say that the book has acted as a catalyst for a lot of self discovery and some very hard realizations about my life to this point.
What I am happy to be able to say is that I am now more “myself” than I have been for a long while. I seem to have, quite accidentally, been handed the reins to my life and I am quite content with being in the driver’s seat once again. Even though I may not be totally sure of where this road leads.
I’m not one to shy away from change, I have a strange fascination with it. But change is often a symptom of something else…at least for me. What I am surprised with this time around is how all this change has brought around more order than chaos.
So, now I am faced with not just having a mantra, but living it out and trusting that it is true. You will hear me say it often…now I will see if I believe enough to live it:Â Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt!
And this all brings to mind my favorite Shakespearian quote from King Lear. An all to apropos comment on how we cause more problems when we fight ourselves & try to mold our own destiny. “In striving for better oft we mar what’s well.”
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