Dr. Carolyn Coon

  Regardless of where you are on the age continuum, are you experiencing your good life? Age really has little to do with being in your good life place. Fame, fortune, peripheral ‘things’ are only add on’s, they are not the essential and eternal values that demonstrate that you are living your good life.   I […]

  Let’s face it. We ALL look to discovering the expedient and, hopefully(?), easy way to accomplish (fill in the blank). This ‘mindset’ is true for us in a variety of situations, but it is especially true when it comes to extricating ourselves from a ‘bad’ situation. This may sound harsh but I think it’s

  This title comes from a friend who was relating his ‘philosophy’. He has a habit that he employs each morning (how his title relates his habit, I have no idea). Paraphrasing and with apologies to Erv – my understanding… each morning as he sets out for work, he rolls the window of his car

  Sometimes casting away, off is what we need to do and sometimes we need to hold tight. Example from Hebrews 10:35 – “Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward.” This is an example of a quality, attitude to NOT cast away. Confidence is not something you want to eliminate from your foundation.

  Which describes your basic style? Are you a player? Or a sideliner, substitute? This is not a value classification, it’s more of a question on personal style determination. Some people are players, involved with their lives – they take destiny and pursue it. Others are more of the sideline or substitute player types that

  When you think about it for only a moment you must admit that there is a great deal of darkness in our world. Everywhere we read (or see) that there is violence – people physically hurting one another and then there are the untold acts of psychological violence. The ‘news’ that’s reported reminds one

  Recently I heard (where?) a very fascinating statement: “Certainty is fleeting that’s why we need faith.” I would gladly attribute this to whomever spoke or wrote it but, alas, I don’t know the originating source. The point though is that this comment should cause all of us to pause and look at ‘certainty’ and

  Are you pleased with you? Pleased with who you are, who you are becoming, how you go about being you, how you present yourself…? A more important, yet difficult question is – do you think the Lord is pleased with you? Do you know why or why not… and equally important, how do you

  Have you ever wondered if we put the accent on the wrong sy-lla-ble? Do we over focus on us, me, I? Of course we do! Our mindset, our frame of reference, our needs and wants, our understanding… all that begins with us/me/I. But while we are the focus from which we react and interact

  I could have said, ‘application’ but since I write about applying what you know as often as I do, I thought I’d state it slightly differently. Webster: “…an act of putting to use; a use to which something is put”. Obviously, not a particularly enlightening definition, but accurate. But I would suggest that the