For too much of my life I have had a carrot dangling out in front of me. I have always been striving to catch up with this carrot. Do you know the carrot? The story goes something like this. If I were only richer, prettier, smarter, healthier, slimmer, you name it, then I would be ok, then I would have what I needed to succeed. Somehow the carrot held the prize of life and I just needed to get it. The carrot may be different for each of us. It may be living up to an ideal our

When my daughter was little we had a dog, a boxer, by the name of Lita. Lita loved life and she loved my daughter. They would go out the dog door at the same time, which was hilarious to watch. They played together, bounced on my daughter’s mini trampoline together and they slept together. Every night we would walk around the neighborhood, stop at the park, and Lita would chase her ball. When Lita was two we went to the park on one such night to throw the ball. It was a large

I have asked myself this question a lot. Where should my attention be? On my partner, on my kids, on work or perhaps ultimately on God? For a long time, I didn’t even place myself as one of the answers to this question. It actually seemed a bit selfish for me to think I deserved to be on that list, let alone to be at the very top. I wanted so much for myself but I had grown strongly to believe that things would come to me, not through focusing on myself, but by being selfless