Talking to yourself helps self control
Before you pig out on turkey and pie this week remember to put the fork down long enough to take a deep breath and listen to your inner voice. You know the one — sometimes it sounds sweet and encouraging, other times it grates like a nagging mother-in-law. That voice might just be the key [...]
How to regroup when your dreams derail
Sometimes it’s hard to keep your chin up. There are days when it feels like the whole world is saying “No” and everyone is tossing obstacles onto your path. We’ve all been in this kind of rut: where you feel more stuck than successful. Where it’s hard to keep going. Where you’re just sick and [...]
The Five Secrets of Success: Take action every day
Jack Canfield father of the Chicken Soup for the Soul and overall success guru calls it the Rule of Five. I think of it as living a life of inspired action. It’s all the same principle that says: By taking steps every day toward your purpose or goal, success is unavoidable. When you take consistent [...]
Whatever you do, don’t frown
I’ve been smiling a bit more these days. Not because I’m any happier — though I’m not unhappy — it’s more that I’m afraid not to. Here’s why: The Big Wigs say smiling might just help you live longer. Wayne State University researchers evaluated the smiles of baseball players in photographs and determined those who [...]
Observe the anger and then lean toward love
A couple of weeks ago, I stood on the edge of someone else’s anger. Rage really. And for a second it threatened to pull me in, sucking me under until I matched the rage and responded with my own threats and lies and irrationality and immaturity and hurt. Hostility can be like that. It can [...]
Worry, stress? It’s all a matter of perspective
I’ve been thinking a lot about perspective, lately. It’s interesting to me how two people can experience the same circumstances and have completely different experiences of it. One is angry because some jerk cut her off on the freeway and the world is out to get her. The other, is hoping that the woman who [...]
Seven Quick Ways to Feel Better Now
I know I’ve been writing a lot these days about the power of emotions. But understanding how they work in your life is the key to living the life you desire. Or at least feeling good about the life you’re living. Science shows that we can choose our emotions and influence every aspect of our [...]
Make Your Emotions Allies
If you’ve ever seen a toddler’s tantrum (or even one of a woman, as in Me, who has just been told she was over-reacting; “I’ll show you over-reacting!”) you know the power of emotions. They have the potential to fire us up and inspire us toward creative, loving, kind actions. They can be expansive. Or [...]
Shift focus from bad to the better and your day improves
After hours of work at the keyboard and hours before that pondering during dinner, making notes in the middle of the night, spacing out during conversations with my husband (yes, Honey, not listening to you IS sometimes part of the creative process) I lost the document. DUH. I spent an hour looking for it in [...]
Fill Up On Empowering Beliefs
We want to make changes. Live our potential. Be happy and progressive. Contributors. We want to make a difference and we really don’t want to be crazy or stressed all the time. Since we’re not stupid people, (really we’re not) and we know just what steps to take to realize our ultimate goals, why aren’t [...]
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