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When I heard the saying “Nature Abhors a Vacuum” many years ago, I really did not get what it meant. I think I was supposed to live some years to fully get it. To me, it is nature’s balancing as well as challenging system. Last week I talked about the Rayid Eye Patterns and how I was studying them. In my work with my own eye patterns, I have learned a lot about myself. Interestingly enough, in all the personality inventories that I have taken, been certified in, or coach

Everywhere I look I see change. The most evident change that I have seen lately is at Memorial Park. Last year when we had the drought, many trees died in the park. At first it just seemed like a few yet the longer the drought went, the more trees turned brown. When the drought was over, the damage was inconceivable. The Houston Chronicle came out with an article that said they estimated they were going to loose up to 80% of the trees in the park. Being a native Houstonia

Sometimes when I get hold of something that is profoundly affecting my life, I just will not let it go until I can get some clarity……. “Like a dog on a bone”…they say. I am that way with change right now. It is fascinating me, challenging me, confusing me, frustrating me, and at the same time bringing me joy in the growth that I am experiencing on the way. There is a lot change going on in my life right now and I am doing my best to stay present so I can learn more about ch

If there was a degree I could get for the amount of time I spent on any given subject, I would have a PhD in fear. I have spent a lot of my life in fear of something or somebody…..most of the time, the fear was much greater than the actual experience……it always is for me. This past week I finished redoing my website (www.wisdomofsound.com) after working on it for close to a year. This is the first website that I hired a web designer and had my own website created from scrat

the past few weeks, I have had a lot of change going on, not only with me, but with coaching clients, men in my group, as well as my family. There seems to be one constant I see in this change….. fear to change because we just don’t know what is on the other side. What I am realizing more every day is how I hold on to certain areas of my life, not because I am thrilled with where I’m at necessarily, as much as I don’t know what change will bring and it may be worse than what

There are a lot of things that I know a lot about, and there are some things that I just don’t know. It took me a long time to realize the power in saying “I don’t know”. I always had some message that said that if I didn’t know everything, then I just wasn’t enough. As I mentioned in my last blog, we have been doing a lot of work on change, trust, and letting go in my men’s meetings. I also have been doing a lot of that work on myself. The common denominator that keeps c

Whether you pronounce potato with the “a” sounding like “bay” or the “a” sounding like “ahhh”, it is purely your opinion or should I say your judgment. This discussion of the difference or similarities between “opinion” and “judgment” seems to bring up a lot of different answers. So being a good researcher, the first thing that I thought that would be appropriate was to consult the dictionary. Opinion – a belief or judgment that rests on grounds insufficient to produce comp

I seem to find great wisdom in some of most interesting places. I have had fortune cookies that have changed my life, and I have had people give me sayings that have made me stop in my tracks and take a big left turn. One of the best and simplest sayings that I love is “Where there is light…..there is no darkness.” Seems so simple, yet I have spent most of my adult life finding the light to shine on the darker sides of my being. Think about it….if you walk into a room and

I am continually amazed at how the circle plays such an important role, not only in my life, but in life in general. This time it is about completing one circle in life and the start of another. In 1979, I graduated from TCU in Ft. Worth. In 2009, my oldest daughter Madison graduated TCU. This year, 2012, my youngest daughter, Kelsey, is graduating TCU. It is not as if I am some big Horned Frog alumni, it just worked out this way. What it has provided is some interestin

I am still in shock and somewhat numb over learning that my friend Zen Rin Jeff Goodman passed away on Saturday night, April 22, 2012. It seems as if I had just talked with him although it has been a month or so since we last talked. With Facebook, I could keep current with him through his postings and pictures. Jeff was one of those friends that I was not particularly close with, yet somehow we had this spiritual connection. We did not talk often yet somehow he would appe