The Resolute Woman

Category: goals

  • The meaning of life

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    “Love is our true destiny,” said Thomas Merton, the Catholic writer and mystic. “We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone. We find it with another.”

  • The end of summer

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    Before Labor Day arrives—and it’s coming soon, I’m going to take a summer afternoon off. I’ll read a book—or go to a movie—or maybe I’ll do nothing. I’m inspired by a quote I found in the latest Bas Blue catalogue. It was prominently displayed on a list pad: “Time is precious. Waste it wisely!” –Joy

  • Wild and free

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    It’s August, almost the end of the summer. The vacation season is coming to a close. Sooner than we realize, we’ll begin the months of celebration with Labor Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Be sure to make time before the end of August for a new adventure. And, remember the wisdom of Thoreau: “All good…

  • The story of your life

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    You are the director of the movie of your life, Ann Madonia Casey reminded me in a recent essay in The Dallas Morning News. “In my imagination, the hereafter we deserve would be one we create for ourselves every breathing moment,” Casey writes. “It would be simply this: Each person is forced to watch the…

  • The beginning of a dream

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    “A dream begins with a dreamer,” Harriet Tubman once said. Tubman, who soon will be featured on $20 bills, was born a slave. After she escaped to freedom, she returned to the South again and again to rescue more than 300 slaves.

  • Just get started

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    Timothy Pychyl, a professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, calls procrastination a coping mechanism gone awry in which people “give in to feel good.” When you feel tempted to procrastinate, the best thing you can do is to remember that you don’t have to be in the mood to do the task, Pychyl says. What…

  • Keep growing

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    No matter who we are, we have to keep changing, growing—even when it’s easier to stay the way we are. “Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow,” Goethe once said.

  • Thinking is easy

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    Whatever you can do, Goethe said, begin it. Action is powerful—but often it’s not easy to act, Goethe admitted. He once said: “Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”

  • Laugh out loud

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    Leigh Anne Jasheway, in her book Don’t Get Mad, Get Funny, offers a new approach to resolutions. These are four of her suggestions: * Do something daily that makes you laugh out loud. * Eat right 90 percent of the time. * Focus on what you did right every day, instead of what you did…

  • Those New Year’s resolutions

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    I cut out and saved the Luann comic strip in the March 6, 2016, issue of The Dallas Morning News. “Ugh!,” Luann says. “I found this list of New Year’s Resolutions I made when I was 12, and here’s the list I made nine weeks ago.” “What’s wrong?” Luann’s friend asks, as she begins to…