Know what it's like to be facing a huge task and the very magnitude of it causes you to procrastinate? Either you don't know where to start or you are feeling too overwhelmed and brain cluttered to concentrate. That makes you a member of a very...
[Published on Huffington Post]When did it become that faster was equated with being better? Not only do we expect that we have to perform faster but we also know that it is going to cost us more and we are okay with that.
We talk about the speed of cars in terms of how fast they can get from zero to sixty and that is measured in seconds. After all, it is so really very important that our car will spring us into action at a stop light so we can be first at the next one. Is this a status symbol? For some it is.
Is the crux of the problem with road rage why people are demanding to get to where they are going faster?
Quite a number of years ago, we set out to buy a sailboat. The decision to do so came about after an adventurous trip around the eastern side of the Great Lakes in Ontario Canada.
Both my hubby and I had spent five weeks teaching summer school and our reward was to rent a cottage for a week on the shores of Lake Huron followed by this road trip. We were exhausted when we arrived at the cottage and the location was spectacular with its world famous sunsets. For all that week it was easy to think about making a cottage part of our summer experience.