Gayle Tabor

Water Water Everywhere, Why aren’t You Drinking It?

2013/01/10 Gayle 0

I am a wateroholic or at least I used to be! The story goes that when I was a baby I would awaken in the night to be fed. My doctor advised my mother to offer me water instead because I ‘wouldn’t keep waking for water’. For the next 12 years, I woke 5 out of 7 nights wanting water. Sorry Mom! When I was about three years old I was in a drug store with my mom. I wanted water! It was back in the day when drug stores still had lunch counters. My mom was embarrassed to ask for just water (fearing it would appear we were too poor to buy a soft drink) so, she ordered me a Coke-a-Cola. My mom ended The rest of the story

My Old Rock (an object lesson)

2013/01/07 Gayle 1

Matthew 7:1-5 New American Standard Bible (NASB) “Do not judge so that you will not be judged. 2 For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you. 3 Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and behold, the log is in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.” Today is old rock day and from the minute I saw The rest of the story

blindly wondering rather than deliberately acting

You can’t manage what you don’t measure

2013/01/04 Gayle 2

If you’re in business or management you have undoubtedly heard the saying “You can’t manage what you don’t measure”. This week I have come to realize just how true that is for almost every aspect of change! I have never been one to make New Years Resolutions. I do, however, in or around the beginning of the year assess where I am and think about how close (or far) that is from where I want to be. This year, more than most years I have a laundry list of things I’d like to change! Actually, there are very few areas of my life that I wish to remain untouched in 2013. This all fits very nicely with my phrase for 2013: Nothing Changes Until You Change It. What The rest of the story

50k at 50

2012/12/30 Gayle 3

In less than 2 weeks I am going to do something I never thought I’d do…..turn 50! If you’ve already been there and done that….then you know! If you haven’t yet been there and done that….then YOU know! 50 IS OLD!!!!!!! I wanted to walk a marathon to commemorate my 50th birthday. But by the time I got my act together the Disney marathon was full. So, I decided to do my own self supported marathon….but, well to be honest never got all that excited about spending my entire birthday walking in potentially cold weather! In the end – I didn’t train. There is a big part of me that feels like a real failure. I set a goal – walk a marathon on or The rest of the story

I won’t Eat Fruit (no matter how many resolutions I make)

2012/12/28 Gayle 0

Here we are at the end of another year. In just a few short days we will bid ado to 2012 and welcome 2013 (can you believe it…2013). I stopped making resolutions years ago, when I realized they just made me feel bad about myself. Recent research by Psychology professor Peter Herman has vindicated my thinking. The professor and his colleagues have identified “false hope syndrome,” which means a New Years Resolution that is significantly unrealistic and out of alignment with an internal view of ourselves. This principle reflects that of making positive affirmations. When you make positive affirmations about yourself that you don’t really believe, the positive affirmations not only don’t work, they can be damaging to your self-esteem. However, like many people, I The rest of the story