18 Quotes by Matt Paxton

Every one of my top seven runners had their best time of the year tonight. Our three through five runners dropped a full minute. That's where our boys program was at four years ago.

I'm kind of running out of quotes for those guys. They've just gotten to a level that's above what you're used to seeing. As for anything different they did, they just did what they've been doing all year.

He set it Tuesday and he re-set it tonight. The record had been standing since 1983.

Galen's really talented. He's our fastest sophomore ever.

(The first three boys) ran as a pack the whole way. They did what they were supposed to do and they pushed each other the whole time. They ran as hard as they needed to.

The hoarder usually has been avoiding emotions for so long that getting back in touch with them is scary and painful. We want hoarders to reconnect with their emotions, and expressing anger is often the first step toward that goal. Anger is a powerful emotion, but it is often better to vent it than to succumb to a more debilitating and paralyzing emotion like grief or fear.

For a hoarder, staying clean isn’t really about bins and labels; it’s about processing items that come into the house. A good organizer can help a hoarder develop methods for sorting mail, for staying on top of recycling, and for making sure donated items get to their destinations... The repetition of bad cleaning skills is usually what got the hoarder into trouble in the first place, so an organizer works on repetition of new, positive cleaning skills.

Hoarding isn’t about how much stuff someone has, it’s about how they process those things.

Some hoarders choose to be alone because they have lost someone in the past. On the surface it looks like a hoarder wants to be alone, but the truth is the hoarder doesn’t want to get close to someone else and risk another loss or death.