It’s incredible how much stress we can take on before we finally feel the weight of all our life stressors. Between work, family, bills, we must maintain a functional composure in our society that is deemed acceptable. In other words, showing friends and family that we are dealing with all that life drama and not losing our ever loving minds in public! So many of us go into autopilot and don’t acknowledge the need to relieve stress in a healthy way. Many people feel that they don’t have time to relax. Others feel that relaxing is lazy. And some feel that they are not worthy of taking the time … [Read more...]
Like attracts Like – What are you inviting into your life?
Do you live in a mode of gratitude? Do you take the time to sit back and evaluate your life and really realize just how lucky you are? “Who me? I’m not lucky…” you may be thinking. That simply isn’t true. We all have things we can be thankful for… Our health Our friends Our pets Maybe the place we live or a person in our life A favorite restaurant The smell of your favorite flower A good glass of wine The freedom to go outside and feel the wind in our hair To live in a place with year-round sunshine and on and on… Sit down and make a list … [Read more...]
Goals are great, but what about NOW?
It seems every self-help guru under the sun these days wants to point you to setting goals. Goals are wonderful, we all need a direction. The problem comes in that many people take that to the extreme. They become so goal oriented and focused on what they desperately want to happen way in the future that life is zooming right by them day after day and they are not able to be present in their daily life, enjoying the here and now. Slow Down Breathe Look around Take time to appreciate what’s good in your life already If you aren’t doing these things on a regular basis, you … [Read more...]
The Best Apology
We are human. It is bound to happen in life that each of us will make a mistake that will in some way hurt another person. Once we realize it has been an error on our part that has caused the damage if there is any hope to repair it an apology and amends need to be made. Saying you are sorry and actively meaning it, having learned from the situation, are two entirely different things. What’s the difference? It isn’t all that difficult to utter the words “I’m sorry” for most people. The problem becomes when, though they do feel regret in hurting you, they often times … [Read more...]
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