“Each day when I awake I know I have one more day to make a difference in someone’s life”

Wanting one’s life to matter and make a positive difference (recognized and appreciated by others) is probably among most people’s deepest desires.

Rather than ask ourselves IF we are making a difference, I’d like to suggest we ask HOW we do – or can. The actual extent or significance of the difference is seldom up to us to determine. Not everything is obvious, immediate, or acknowledged.

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There is a lot of talk today about “deficits” (and what is perceived and proclaimed as “lacking”, or “not enough”, in some way). Most people are aware of a growing “budget deficit” and increasing “attention deficit”. But, is there really a deficit (problem) at all – or just a difficulty in our default definition, distribution, and allocation of assets and resources?

Accuracy, Brevity, and Clarity have long been said to be the ABCs of (Effective) Communication – but what about the rest of the alphabet?

Cogito ergo sum? I think, therefore I am? Either way, what and how we think is often said to important. Even if thinking does not determine our actual existence, it very well may create our individual and shared “reality” – or at least our perception(s) of it.

It is sometimes said that there is a thin line between love and hate. Both are powerful, strongly felt emotions – you’d think might not have much else in common. Yet, it is not uncommon for people to come to love who or what they once hated or to hate who or what they once loved.

The opposite of love is not hate, but fear! In most ways, anything that is not love is a call (and need) for it. Yet where and when there is fear (or hate), it often seems as if there is no room for love – no matter how much it may be needed (or desired).

“Daylight Saving Time” (this year) starts on SUN-Day morning, March 14th, 2010 at 2am. Clocks can be changed but time can NOT be “saved”. Time also can NOT be “managed” – although it may be “manipulated”. The same is true for human behavior.

Do not judge those who try and fail; judge those who fail to try.

Many people do not like the word “try”, claiming, like Yoda (of Star Wars fame) that “there is no ‘try’; there is only do and not do”. Yet in addition to merely “attempt”, “try” has other meanings (and motives) – worth considering.