Winter Happiness and Well-Being #1
Saturday, 25 January 2014
It all begins with your mind, your attitude, helping yourself develop a perspective that is helpful, not counterproductive. Each season lasts 3 months, on the calendar. If you open the season of winter lamenting the shorter hours of daylight and the cold temps, you are setting your mental stage for depression and frustration. The trick
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What anxiety actually is
Tuesday, 21 January 2014
Anxiety is so prevalent that even Hollywood has gotten in on it and made movies to get us to share the experience and laugh about it, yes, laugh. What is it? Do you have it? Is it contagious? Is there a cure? There are many questions about the experience of anxiety that come into
The storms of autumn
Monday, 18 November 2013
The season is upon us, this time of the year we know as autumn. In the Midwestern portion of the country, we have had the annual glory of awesome colors blessing our eyes, blended with the warmth of the sun that shines and makes all those colors dance. My focus is on the beauty and
When stress invades your life
Tuesday, 05 November 2013
It is very difficult to function normally when you have an experience of overwhelming stress enter your world. The stress of a loved one being terminally ill, the actual loss of that loved one, caustic interactions with people in your life — the list is whatever you have that comes to mind that causes you
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Building your inner strength
Wednesday, 02 October 2013
Each and every day we are presented with challenges. The quality of our life is not contingent upon what comes to us but it is based upon how we handle what we are dealt to deal with. Stop and think about what you have the ability to do — you have a strong mind, you
Manage your stress and spread happiness
Monday, 16 September 2013
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
Think nothing?
Wednesday, 11 September 2013
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
Build upon your inner strength
Wednesday, 04 September 2013
Happiness comes in all sorts of packages but there is one package that never changes — YOU. The real trick is to be primed for happiness and to be intentional about it. How does that happen? It is not about smiling all the time and denying your feelings — quite the opposite. It is about
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Success with juggling
Monday, 26 August 2013
How many balls do you have up in the air? And how often? And for how long? Are you keeping track of what is where and when? How energizing is it for you to do this routine or is it draining? Some people thrive on this and make it their life’s focus. It
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