Winter of Happiness & Well-Being #6

Tell me you’re not secretly thrilled that I didn’t let you think that winter was over in February. Most of the country is under another winter advisory, the Midwest is poised for an additional storm bringing snow, snow, snow.  Get ready to use your hand gestures but make sure it is this one and not

Winter of Happiness & Well-Being #5

Temperatures at this time of year will often fool us, lure us into thinking that perhaps the winter season is over and warmth and sunshine are here to replace milky skies, ice, and snow. Not true. The season is on the calendar for another 27 days and just just like with all events, the world

Winter Happiness & Well-being #2

Did you try any of the suggestions that I gave you last week? There were 5. If you did, you have GOT to let me know how it made a difference for you, the suspense is driving me nuts!  :  ) I wrote them and I still managed to come up with a way to
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Stepping into your life

This is about the time, each year, when discouragement is creeping in about sticking to New Year Resolutions. We hate when that happens, often to the point of just not making any resolutions. That, however, is a missed opportunity. We all want to be our best self. To make a resolution is really about having
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The K Factor

Where K = Kindness, and the factors are the things that lead to it.  
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The start of a new season

This is the opening of a new month, on the heels of Thanksgiving and the beginning of new holidays where everyone is in a flurry and feeling joyous and also terrified about the stress of it all. Not to stress — relax, breathe, be happy, put a smile on your face until it makes you
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The middle of the week — Wednesday

It is not what anyone ever talks about — Wednesday. Friday gets a whole lot of attention, there is even an acronym for the excitement it generates — TGIF — thank God its Friday! There is even a national restaurant chain named such. We go there to celebrate the end of the week and the
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Manage your stress and spread happiness

Wringing your hands won’t do you much in the way of anything productive, we all actually know this. I think it is an old habit someone started when they wanted to hold the hand of a loved one but no one was there. It might have started as a way to provide a bit of
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Think nothing?

Can you take time off from your brain being in high gear and allow it time to relax a bit or do you need to be running and engaged at every moment? There is a risk in believing that you need to maintain a high gear consistently — exhaustion. Our brain is just like every

Your Brain Power: Important Steps To Take Today

Build The Strength Within — the idea came to me as I witnessed my own struggle with tragedy and dramatic sorrow and knew that I had to find a way to take hold of my mind and salvage my own sanity and spirit. Every single day there are events that take us off on a