Inspiration

Let’s face it: when you’re snowed in by eight foot foot “drifts” that look more like mountains, and/or below zero temperatures, it can be hard to remember to focus on practicing the sort of life-enhancing practices I teach here in my blog. The stress of a months-long disruption of normal activities has been like one [...]

Did you do the 5 steps from last week’s post? Have you identified the 3-5 changes you’d love to make in 2015? Did you rank them in order of difficulty? Did you make sure each one is the “right size” for taking on with a reasonable expectation of success? If not, you may want to [...]

I’m hoping today’s post will get you thinking…and better yet, practicing what I’m about to describe! The germ of this idea came to me after President Obama’s State of the Union Address this week – and trust me I’m NOT going reference any content in the speech, or get into where I or anyone else stands [...]

Whether a moment of gratitude occurs completely spontaneously or we’ve connected with the feeling of gratitude intentionally using the 5 steps described in last week’s post, these good moments can sometimes be hard to hold on to. External events, our thoughts about some pressing issue, demands others make on us, and even our ever-present technology [...]