The idea of self determination

When I think about each and every single thing that I write, even when it is about faith, the underlying theme is self determination. No matter what it is that is taking place, we have an investment, we have ownership, we have a percentage of accountability. Creating the life we crave takes a level of
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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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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

Build upon your inner strength

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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Help, I have fallen…

Famous lines from a commercial that most of us have heard. Right? The strangeness of it is that we have been falling down our entire life — we began as toddlers, it is something we have learned to manage so that we don’t get hurt. However, as we move through the decades of our life,
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Success with juggling

  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

Live and love and succeed

I’ve been recently fascinated. Yea. Weird. I find myself in a strange state of seeing people in need and knowing that goodness will help them and also help me. This experience has gotten fueled after spending an entire day solo in my garden pretending. Pretending what? The beauty is — whatever I wanted. No kidding,

What we come to know and believe

A friend asked me to join her at a concert in a small little venue this past weekend. Sure. I went. We had a nice dinner and then walked next door to hear a folk singer — Buddy Mondlock. Really? Yea, www.buddymondlock.com Handsome man, sweet voice. On stage with two guys he knows well, one
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Anxiety and awareness

What we know about anxiety is that it causes stress — it is an experience of the mind that makes the person hyper aware of their body and how uncomfortable it feels. The experience is awful. However, the experience is in the mind and it can interpreted in many ways — there are choices for

Having Faith, Finding Happiness, Meeting with Success

There are as many ways to land upon happiness as there are people on the planet. We each have our own unique perspective about what it means to us. Meaning shifts according to our mood, our state of mind, the way we are feeling physically. For a patient with pneumonia, being able to catch your