I’ve finally been able to get my blog functioning! My ISP “upgraded” their platform in February, and to my dismay, my blog listings were all backwards! Well, my time constraints and their poor customer service conspired to keep me from addressing the problem until this week — and it’s finally fixed!
Look for more entries soon to learn more about how to create your own “inner edge”.
Terry Lamb
A treasure map is usually a collage that you create from found art and images those in magazines, brochures, on line. The search for the right images is your treasure hunt, and the art you create is your treasure map your map to the wealth you want to create in the time frame you set. Wealth can be anything you want it to be any person, quality, experience, or object you want to have in your life.
Until your son or daughter has a driver’s license, you — the parent — are their chauffeur. While we may have a tendency to view this task as a drudge, this is really valuable time with your child. It’s a great time to talk and get to know your kid — what his or her life is like, what their daily experience is of school or play, and how they see the world.
First, let’s get the ipods, radio, CDs, and cell phones out of the way. It’s okay for you, as the parent, to set some ground rules. Of course, it’s easier the younger your kids are when you do it. Still, no matter their age, you are the adult. They’ll get over it and secretly appreciate your interest.
I home-schooled both my boys for several years. Although it was different for each of them, I learned some lessons along the way. Here’s how I learned to manage the situation with a minimum of hair-tearing:
Among the people I know, the most successful relationships are reciprocal, and the partners are equal. That means that the partners consider themselves to be equals and that the give-and-take of the relationship is balanced. No one person is doing more than their half of the work on and in the relationship, and neither tries to put one over on the other. Not only is it impossible to win in relationship (or score points, or any other way of thinking about it) there is nothing to win. When one person wins, both partners lose, and so does the bond between you your partnership. It can take a long time to overcome the consequences of a power play. The price is high, in terms of trust, love, faith in each other, sexual expression, joy in life, and self-confidence. Power plays are draining and can result in both emotional and physical health imbalances.
Autumn is here, and nows the time when all high school seniors thoughts turn to . . . the college admissions essay. If youre lucky, this will come easily to you, but the pressure is on to produce the Perfect Essay that will fling open the doors to the university of your choice.
If youre not so lucky, writers block stymies your efforts. My observation is that if you know what you want if you know yourself youll be better able to write that gem of a composition that will fulfill your deepest desire. Often this involves a lot of deep thought and dialogue with someone that can ask you the right questions to help you access that light within you that will glow in your essay.
(original post from 8/16/07) Relationships are up for review right now, due to an invisible cycle of renewal that we engage in en masse.
Every 18 months, we re-evaluate our relationships, but the real story is that we are re-evaluating ourselves. We have to re-answer the question, “What do I value (love)? This obviously includes money and possessions, but the part of the process that we are likely to notice the most is in our relationships.
We may find that many people around us report their relationships to be in a state of flux. It’s not all bad — in fact, it needn’t be at all. For some, relationships are blossoming. However, if there is a buried issue, it will come up at this time. It’s the perfect time to clear the air - you may not be able to prevent it.
Just as “he who is not busy being born is busy dying,” it is also true that “the relationship that is not busy being born is busy dying.” This is universally true. For relationships that lack openness, this period can be the death knell. it may be too late to save it. For those where the couple make an effort to keep the relationship alive through open communication and spending quality time together, this can be a miraculous time.
The key period for this is July 28 — September 8, but there’s a broader effect between June 15 and October 13. Some issues related to our relationships may not be resolved until next April.
(original post from 8/17/07) Remember I said yesterday that the relationship period were in now leads us to ask, What do I value? This question may go deeper than we think, and it may speak to another process that were dealing with right now, one that gives us a perspective on what makes life worth living. We may be deciding that its not all about money.
Some of us may be deciding that health is more important than money. We may be deciding that the health of Planet Earth is more important than owning a SUV. All of this new, more enlightened deciding results in a shift in cultural values and direction if enough of us do it.
The Hummer we own could suddenly be an embarrassment. If we evaluate our carbon footprint, we may suddenly feel like a real hog of resources and lose our interest in the next items on our list to purchase.
It appears that the stock market is doing its own version of belly-button gazing: Its been absolutely wobbly as the liquidity crisis has hit the collective psyche. When faced with the question of whether we value our home or all the goodies we can buy with what remains on our home equity line of credit, perhaps we discover that we value the safety we have in the unspent equity.
If there were ever a time when we felt more pressure to learn that all that glitters is not gold, I dont know when that would have been. A friend once insisted that relationships, just like people, are worth more than money, and that its our community that keeps us afloat more than any money can do. I have lived by that value system ever since, and so far its worked.
Yippee!! This is my first post on the Inner Edge blog. I am new to this, so I chose a theme from the WordPress extended theme library. I want to make a theme that matches my website, but it ain’t easy with my newbie level of expertise. So rather than be an obsessive perfectionist (my NOW PAST tendency!!), I’m going to do the best I can so I can get communicating. So, let’s get this show on the road, but look for changes as I master the learning curve. I am putting my past two news items in the blog for your comment, and I hope you will decide to join us soon!