My Last Post: Why I’m Retiring From Blogging
My Dearest Readers: After giving it much thought, I have decided to retire from blogging. This is my final post. The decision to walk away is not something that I take lightly, but one in which I have tried to look at carefully. Ultimately, the choice was actually a simple one because I’m finally realizing that [...]
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Saturday, January 26, 2008
Back in the early 1990’s I worked as waiter for Pappasito’s, a Tex-Mex restaurant in Austin, Texas. It was after I graduated from Baylor with a degree in Philosophy, with not a clue as to what I wanted to do with my life. Kind of ironic that I got the very degree which keeps asking [...]
Continue reading...A Moment in Time When I Felt “Big”
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Lorelle on WordPress posted a blog challenge: Write About a Moment When You Felt “Big” (with big defined as successful). The truth is I’ve never felt “big” (successful) but I have felt “big” (validated). Perhaps one of my proudest moments professionally was when I conducted a School Crisis Response training for the school staff and community [...]
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Monday, January 21, 2008
I spent the weekend at a friend’s house. My wife and I decided to spend some time with her and her fiancé in her hometown not too far from Dallas. We had some good, old fashioned Vietnamese pho (rice noodles) and throughout the weekend talked with her mom about what life was like growing up [...]
Continue reading...How Music Moves Us
Monday, January 14, 2008
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. —Berthold Auerbach In late fall of 1997, while living and going to school in Tyler, Texas (a beautiful East Texas town), I had one song that I played over and over in the evening time after dinner. That song was Leann Rimes’ “You Light Up My [...]
Continue reading...5 Keys to Appreciating Your Life
Friday, January 11, 2008
Examining Your Past I spent eight years of my young life in a war-torn, Communist-controlled country. And though I’ve never been personally subjected to bombings or other atrocities, I was a victim of a totalitarian system. I have witnessed and been a participant in one of the largest mass exodus of people in history (i.e., “boat [...]
Continue reading...Changing Your Life Course
Monday, January 7, 2008
I’m sorry for the lack of updates guys (and gals). I was sick all last weekend. The good news is that I think I no longer have any fever. The bad news is that I think I now have allergies. Being sick gave me plenty of time to think of things to write about. So [...]
Continue reading...Starting Over by Overcoming Obstacles
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
What a wonderful way to begin the New Year! I came across The Foundation For A Better Life today as I was browsing the web for inspirational stories. The Foundation for a Better Life is a non-profit organization. They don’t sponsor or endorse any groups nor do they accept any money contributions. Founded in 2000, [...]
Continue reading...Yearning for More…Much More - Lessons Learned in Hindsight
Monday, December 31, 2007
For of all sad words of tongue or pen The saddest are these: It might have been! -John Greenleaf Whittier Back on August 11, 2003, I asked for feedback regarding what I should do with my life on a chat forum. Yup, I was that desperate. I had recently completed my Master’s in Counseling Psychology, but felt increasingly [...]
Continue reading...Beyond Behaviors’ New Threads for 2008
Friday, December 28, 2007
It’s been one year, 10 months, and 10 days since I first launched an unknown (now defunct) blog called, Steve Nguyen Online. Astute observers will notice that Beyond Behaviors currently uses the same beautiful sunset photo that the original site used. Today, I’m pleased to share with our readers a cosmetic enhancement to Beyond Behaviors‘ [...]
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Thursday, January 31, 2008
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