Many phrases celebrate the home as a center of life and happiness. “There’s no place like home”, “Home is where your heart is”, and “Home is where our story begins” to quote a few. They represent the importance of a home to a stable personal life and romanticize its status in our life. Their point,…
Masayuki Uemura, a hardware engineer at Nintendo, died on December 6, 2021, at the age of 78. In the ’70s and ’80s, Uemura led the development of Nintendo’s earliest home consoles and peripherals. The video games of that generation, with their slow and rudimentary graphics and their signature electronic music, became hits with kids and…
The subject of Legacy, a topic I wrote about a while back, came up again in a recent conversation. The question this time came from a different place: how to create a support system to sustain a child who might not have the best skills for independent living? The worries of parents as they work…
Hate is a strong emotion that causes us to act in ways other emotions fall short on. Love is the only other emotion that comes close to that. Hate drives our actions to extremes and paints them in strong, dangerous colors. A world of hate, accented by fear and misunderstanding, is a dangerous environment to…
We test ourselves constantly, every hour of every day, in various forms, and in pretty much everything we do. Working, playing, exercising, loving, dreaming. We test our proficiency and competitiveness, and how we have improved since the last test. We test how attractive we are to others and check that against how attractive other people…
Many among us lead professional lives that originated in early choices we made as young teenagers. These choices lead to schooling, training, degrees, and certifications. Then there are those who chose to follow their talents, setting aside conventional channels for education and instead acquired the essential training themselves. They studied elements that interested them and…
Many of us learned the importance of excelling from an early age. Individual success is encouraged from childhood. Many apply that discipline to all aspects of their lives, including family and relationships, by placing their happiness and success above all else. They expect, even demand, that everyone around them will adhere to and support their…
Those among us who have experienced dating before the age of the internet and smartphones remember a different, simpler way of getting to know other people and sailing into a relationship. Every aspect of that courtship, including romantic and platonic relationships, was conducted on a personal level. Everything you came to find about the other…
Would you buy a new product from a store knowing the product is defective or broken? Of course you wouldn’t! Who in their right mind would accept a brand new broken car, a malfunctioning TV, or a defective smartphone? No one would serve or eat a rotting food product, wear a brand new jacket, shirt,…
The topic of goal setting and progress monitoring had been addressed here in previous posts, including ways to practice those priorities and receive coaching on them. There is an additional, less visible, and unavoidable side to that practice – its cost. What would it take to bring a change to fruition? Enhancing one’s spirit and…