Category Inspirational

FMM 2 21 14 Expand your mind

“If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness”~ Les Brown. I have endless admiration for those who rise above their circumstances.  I often sit and wonder if I could be as brave, as strong, as enduring, as those who […]

FMM 2 14 14 Speed and Accuracy

“If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well” ~ Catherine Jones I learned to touch-type on a manual typewriter in a class taught by my mother.  She didn’t joke, that lady, you came into her class to gain a skill, and if your intentions were to fool around and waste an hour, […]

FMM 2 7 14 Are we there yet?

“For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself…” ~ Viktor Frankl It is a long drive to get to the north coast from the center of Jamaica.  A journey of perhaps 30 miles (or […]

FMM 1 31 14 Core Training

“Strength does not come from physical capacity.  It comes from an indomitable will.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi.   The first time I set foot in a gym, I was struck by one thing: all of this effort and sweat with no product.  I thought of how it would appear to the hardworking farmers and laborers of developing […]

FMM 1 24 14 Nothing but Blue Sky

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” ~ Victor Hugo. On one of my flights into Manchester, I don’t recall how many years ago, I had a surprising discovery.  It was a clear, cloudless morning, the sun rising from a rose tinged horizon, the sky a beautiful shade of dark blue.  As […]

FMM 1 17 14 Self-Efficacy

“Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.”~ Viktor E. Frankl Studies show that you can predict a person’s ability to change a habit by the degree to which they believe in their ability to change.  Self-efficacy is the term given to that belief […]

FMM 1 10 14 Sensational!

“Open your eyes, and look within.”~ Robert Nesta Marley (aka ‘Bob’)   What a distracted society we have become.  We are no longer satisfied with doing things one activity at a time.  For some reason we feel inadequate, lazy, or incomplete when we focus on one single thing.  The generation coming up are experts at […]

1 3 14 Choices

“You say goodbye, and I say hello” John Lennon All good things must come to an end. And so a trip to the family, to England and Wales comes to an end. With it come the regrets, the questions. What if? What if I did not live in Miami? What if I had stayed in […]

12 27 13 We walk this path together

“In every conceivable way, family is link to the past, and bridge to the future” – Alex Haley. First – a disclaimer: I am struggling to write this morning on my new device (I suppose you could call it an early Christmas gift), an i-pad. And though it is wonderful for addictions such as facebook, […]

FMM 12 20 13 That old time feeling

“My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others.  Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?” ~Bob Hope   Time is flying.  We seem to notice this in December more than any other month, as Christmas is upon us (already?) and the year […]