No one is harder on us than ourselves when it comes to making mistakes. Over and over we beat ourselves up for making errors and not doing things right the first time. Whether we have had instilled in us a need to be perfect through our upbringing or we have just learned on our own to be hard on ourself, we often are our own worst enemy. We see mistakes in the negative instead of seeing them for what they are meant to be. As we go through life there are many… Read More

There are times in our life that no matter how hard we try to be truly happy, it seems to constantly elude us and we never seem to quite get there. That happiness that we so desire seems truly out of reach and we continue to stay in our mire because it all seems just too hard. It is at those moments that we have to take a look at our efforts and question just whose definition of happiness we are trying to live up to. Happiness is many things to many… Read More

As we go through life we start to build a cache of memories from the time we are born. The things we do, the people we meet and the situations we encounter all start to form a memory box in our mind that we often access in times of need and sadness. We create good memories, bad memories, memories that have significance and sometimes memories that we would rather forget. Often, we allow those memories to override each other. When we need to feel good, we allow the bad memories to sabotage… Read More

There is nothing more beautiful in this world than doing something that changes someone’s life. We never know when that opportunity is going to present itself, which makes it incredibly important that we are always on the lookout for the opportunity when we encounter other people. Years ago, when I was first starting out in the work force, I worked in a call center for a pharmacy benefits management company. We took calls from people who were inquiring about their mail order prescriptions and would talk to many people during our eight… Read More

We get one chance at a minute or a day. There are no do overs. When we get to the end of a day, can we look back and say that we made a difference? Can we look in the mirror and be happy with what we see? Do we know that the time spent in those minutes resulted in something good, even if we only planted seeds that still need to grow and mature? There are 1,440 minutes in a day. If you subtract eight hours of those minutes for sleeping… Read More

Do you ever have that morning where you are facing a daunting day and you find it difficult to roll over and get out of bed? You know that you have to, but that work or personal situation is weighing on you so heavily that it almost makes it impossible to lift your head off the pillow. Yet, somehow you muster the strength to pull yourself together and set off to deal with whatever the day is going to bring. How and why? Because in all things there is a purpose. Every… Read More

When faced with adversity in life, it is amazing the strength we discover that we never knew we even had. They say that life will never give us more than we can handle at any one time, but we all know that there are situations where that doesn’t seem true. We are often overburdened with so much that we feel like there is no way out and definitely no light at the end of the tunnel. It is then that we have to remind ourselves that no matter what, the situation or… Read More

In my writing, I often talk about nourishing the soul. It is one of the most important things we can do. Why? Because, when our soul is right and fulfilled almost everything else falls in place. When we are living the life we desire and making the most of what has been given us, we are free to focus on other things that only enhance the beautiful life that we have created for ourselves. If our soul isn’t right we spend so much time trying to get it right that we have… Read More

How many times in our lives have we really wanted something, yet we never really see it come to pass? Rather than willing it we spend most of our time killing it even before it happens. It is amazing how the universe listens to us. When we put the slightest bit of negativity out there it somehow overpowers our intended desire and that which we wanted never seems to happen. Let me explain. It is my belief that for something to truly come to fruition we have to be all in. We… Read More

Don’t we owe it to ourselves to be the best we can be? Are we ever really satisfied with being just mediocre when we know that we have so much more potential within us? I believe that we all have the ability to do something great that has an effect on the world and the people around us. It often only requires us tapping into that ability that lies deep within us and nurturing and growing that ability to its full potential. When I was growing up I pushed myself hard to… Read More