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It’s almost cliché to be blogging about gratitude during the month of November, but I find that I want to be cliché! If I could blog about gratitude every week of the year I would do it. Hmmm….that’s something to think about for 2014. 🙂 I admit I spent most of my adult life  looking around […]

  Most people are really good at thinking about what they want their life to look like. And most people stop right there. And that’s where they stay stuck. Having something brought to you and receiving it are two completely different things. As I pondered on the difference between these two things, a picture came to my mind.

Did I mess up on that title? Did you read that right? There’s a problem with positive thinking? Actually, yes.  Sometimes positive thinking can make you feel worse  because you feel like it’s a lie. I guess it’s not really the thinking that’s the problem. It’s the accompanying feeling that causes the angst. You might

At my house, we love Phineas and Ferb– adults and children alike! At the end of one episode, the evil Dr. Doofenschmirtz gets sucked into a tornado while driving in his van. While the credits are playing, you’ll occasionally hear him call out, “I am getting deeezzy!” and at the very end he ponders, “Maybe

Where I live, we just had fall break. The kids got a 5 day weekend, so we packed them up and went camping. Well, if you call “camping” a condo in the mountains…which I do. 🙂  On day 2 we went hiking, up a 3 mile trail along the ridgeline of the mountain. While we climbed,

“You’ll stop worrying about what other people think of you as soon as you realize how little they do.” Like most people, I used to really worry about what others thought of me. It wasn’t until about a year ago, honestly, that I finally let go of that. You really have zero control over what

I’ll admit it: I’m a recovering people pleaser.  I hated letting other people down or inconveniencing them in any way. I’d say I had healthy boundaries, but when push came to shove, I was always shoved out of the way. Wrapped in my insecurity blanket I

It’s time. You can feel it. The price tag of staying where you are is more than the cost of changing. Yes, there will be sacrifices involved–like sacrificing your boredom and complacency, for starters–but the very definition of sacrifice is giving up something good  in favor of something better. Is that really a sacrifice then?

Whoever said this nailed it right on the head! Worrying serves no purpose whatsoever. It certainly doesn’t get you ahead, because it’s based in scarcity, fear and lack. I’ve never felt better after I’ve spent ten minutes worrying about something; have you? And I’ve never worried my way into the solution, either.

“No one ever worried their way out of a problem.” I’ve heard this quote before, but never applied it to myself until recently. That’s when I learned that worry is nothing more than putting faith or energy toward an undesired outcome. That’s when I sat up and took notice! If what you focus on expands,