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follow Terry onSo here it is April 4, and the Green Bay Packers are still waiting on Brett Favre’s decision whether to retire or not. What is he waiting for – I don’t believe the Packers have made the kind of free agent splash that would lead to a major improvement, so if his motivation is “I …
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One of my best coping mechanisms to staying half full is occasional “brain exercise” that doesn’t involve work or (at least lately) house rennovations. For example, my wife and I religiously do the Sunday crossword in the NY Times. I swear our vocabulary has increased twofold in the four years we’ve been doing this. On …
Yesterday I was having a conversation with my haircutter (or is it stylist?) whist getting my usual trim when I uttered one of my self appointed “half-fullisms”, “I guess I’m just an eternal optimist”. The response: “Not me -I’m an eternal realist”. What’s the difference, I wondered? Naturally, I had to investigate. First, to the …
One of the keys to keeping my glass half full is adhering to those comforting rituals that put my body and mind in the right place to face the “Daily Grind”. Yes, I even wrote a song about this (see my earlier post). Nowadays, the two morning keys when I’m home is getting on that darn treadmill …
One of my biggest passions in life has been for the Green Bay Packers, which is pretty nonsensical. Why is a professional sports team so important to me? I don’t have any stake in it at all. How does my half full philosophy jive with this (especially when they just went 4-12 this year)? The answers go …
This famous quote by Teddy Roosevelt is the essence of my half full philosophy – it’s better to be in the Arena slugging it out rather than sitting on the sidelines, afraid to fail.
Hello blogland, starbucker here – I figured that Christmas Day was the best time as ever to start doing this. Yes, I always tend to look at the glass as “half full” – call me an eternal optimist, call me a fool, but I find it’s the best way to live one’s life with the …
