Israel Dec 08 - family time
The trip was also a great time with my family and parents, all of whom rated our visit as one of the best holidays ever! That's my family next to the Sea of Galilee and my parents climbing in the Ein Gedi national park.
Life as a pie chart
Someone told me recently about a "life exercise" in which one compiles all the stuff that makes up your life, and puts it in a pie chart. So let's say for me, something like this. The idea is to visually demonstrate to myself that, in the event I lose one of these things, then I can see that, hey life is not so bad, that wasn't such a big deal. Say for example, if I suffered a blown ACL, and couldn't run or play basketball any more, like this: At first blush - I'd say, hey, I still have my wife, children, parents, career, church life - so, chin up, things are not so bad. Pretty good life visualisation tool to bring some optimism back into play! ... But what if, a month later, something happens at work, and boom, career gets sidetracked, I lose my job, or get put in cold storage somewhere, like this: Oops, now only half my life is left! With only half of life's meaning left to me, what do I do? And what if something happens to
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