What’s Inside Your Box?
Do you believe your hopes and dreams cannot become real, so it is best not to bring them out of your box? Do you feel your prejudices are the only way to think? Have you allowed whatever you have put into your box to stay there without thought or review, or are they stuck there because you are unwilling to see them differently?
What is the TRUTH?
With all the name-calling and things taken out of context and spread across social media, where does that leave the truth? Has it become that truth is left like beauty “in the eyes of the beholder,” or is there more to it?
Don’t Get Caught Being the “Monkey in the Middle”
Entrepreneurs who are continuously involved with their businesses may find themselves unwittingly playing "Monkey in the Middle." It is a situation where others try to grab their attention and distract them from what they should or could be doing, and, in time, they become the monkey in the middle!
How Did the Unacceptable Become Acceptable?
Those of us who have experienced the 1950s and the somewhat naïve living portrayed on television with shows like “Father Knows Best,” “Leave It to Beaver,” and “The Donna Reed Show” are dismayed at how far we’ve departed from what they represented.
Attuning Ourselves to Mother Nature
The earlier spiritual books regarding the chakras I wrote were pretty academic, with explanations and to-do advice. Only after writing Prime Threat, the book written with my son from the other side about addictions, did I become better attuned to the world around me and the true spiritual ways of living.
The Beauty of Simplifying
With so much happening in the world today, people are questioning life as we know it and their role in it. It is impossible to ignore how many people verbalize and ask, “What is my purpose?” They want to know why they are here. Many are floundering and feeling at odds with being at peace with themselves, believing they have missed the mark.
Relationships Can Be Tricky
Relationships can be tricky. They never remain the same. They are constantly changing like a free-flowing river; it just depends on how many times you put your toe into that river with a thought, word, or action to the degree it changes.
Springing Forward
Although we have another month to go before Spring is official, I believe February is the time of year when most of us breathe a sigh of relief that warmer weather and all it brings will become a reality in the not-too-distant future.
Synchronicity Brings Gifts
Synchronicity … unexpected gifts. How often has something that seems to come out of the blue happened in your life? Almost as if a response to something thought yet not spoken? I’m talking about something unusual, perhaps even a bit weird, because it’s so unexpected.
Thoughts on Leadership
My first memory of leadership has to be when my older brother of nearly 5 was the leader marching around the house trailing Cheerios along his path, with my twin sister and me following behind, shrieking and laughing while stepping on and crushing as many of those little circles as we could!
Claiming Your Wealth
What is the secret? Just the word “money” by itself holds power over us. We all want it, and it usually is never enough for most of us … we want more. How can we create and manifest more of this commodity? Does it mean we have to work harder or spend more hours working? Does it mean we need to look at things differently with a new perspective?
What Did You Say?
It’s interesting, to say the least, to have a conversation with someone, and walk away from it only to discover later that you each have a different perspective on what was said. Therefore, it’s no surprise that how we communicate today can lead to even greater confusion, hard feelings, misunderstandings, and more.
Our Beauty Within
You most likely have heard various expressions about beauty, such as “beauty is as beauty does” or “beautiful inside and out.” But the term that made me stop and ponder is the expression “beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.”
What Does It Take to Have an Adventure?
When I first shared with a friend that I was tired of my monotonous way of living and that what I really needed to do was go on an adventure, she looked at me in surprise.
Discovering the True Meaning of Gratitude
Most of us easily express gratitude daily when we say “thank you” to someone for something they have given us or have done for us. But the truth is, we often say it more like a responsive habit without much feeling or thought.
Seeking the Positive During COVID-19
Many of us are sitting with ourselves, trying to figure out the best way to fill our time now that any normal routine seems to be out of the question. We live in such turmoil and with impossible situations today that are beyond our control, for the most part!
Life as a Chain of Choices
Who doesn’t want to feel good about themselves, and what is going on in their life? Yet, many times something pops up in what others may say or think about us that brings us to a low point, and we wonder what life is all about. Some of us may even wonder if life is worth living. When we reach that point, it forces us to re-assess where we are and how we got to that place.
Creating Your Own Happy Dance
When is the last time you did a happy dance? That dance that reminds you and lets anyone watching you know that life is good? When is the last time you looked into a mirror and ignored your wrinkles and other marks of living a stressful life and were able to exclaim out loud, “You‘ve got it going, girl?”
Creativity is a Personal Thing
There are different methods of how we can create and they are personal for each of us, which makes life so interesting. The unusual thing about creativity to me is that I am most creative when I don’t think – when I let ideas and thoughts pass through me and am clever enough to write them down when I am sitting before my computer or have paper and pen available for writing, which is my passion.
Amazing Resilience
Resilience meant so many more things to me when I was younger. Now when I think of the word resilience or its meaning of flexibility, the first thought that flashes through my mind is whether someone, particularly my age, has the ability to easily bend down and touch their toes --- and get back up again! That is what age can do for you! It’s all about perspective, right?
Finding Peace Amid the Chaos of Today
Let’s face it! We are experiencing a very messy, angry way of living today with so many societies throughout the world in conflict with each other as well as individuals at odds with others within each of those societies. I would like to say that this upheaval is something new but, unfortunately, it’s not.
My Unusual Writing Habit
I believe that anything writing has not only its own message, but its own song – its own rhythm, its own flow. Without it, the message can easily get dropped, leaving the reader with a choice of whether to continue on.
Attitude Determines Altitude
It wasn’t too long ago, I was in a predicament where I was unhappy with circumstances and found myself in a gloomy mood. As I sat there, I had to chuckle when I swear I could hear my mother clearly say, “You are not going to get what you want unless you change your attitude, young lady!”