How to Release Your Creativity
You’ll be calm the day you learn to sit alone and do nothing. ~Maxime Lagace Boosting Your Creativity We all can be creative. Yes, all of us. But what might be creative to one person may not be creative to another. Take me, for instance, I’m not a fashionista person. I like nice clothes but it’s not important to me to wear the latest fashion. In other words, I'm not a creative person when...
Slow and Steady Wins the Race
Life is ten percent what happens to you And ninety percent how you respond to it. ~Charles Swindoll I joined a five-day ad challenge for writers a few weeks ago and learned not only about ads but about human behavior too. WE always want to arrive at our destination yesterday, skipping the trials and tribulation part. And of course, we can’t do that. To be successful, we sometimes need to plant...
Do You Still Count Calories?
Why the attraction to carbs? It’s because carbs are low in calories, and often can be low in fat as well. So it seems this might be just the food to eat a lot of, and yet reduce weight. Not so true. Soon after consumption the dieter wonders why they are so ravenous and about to eat the kitchen sink because they’re so hungry.
13 Ways to Feel Calm
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. ~Michelangelo It seems life is more hectic now than ever and for good reason. There’s so much going on in the world that’s completely out of our control.We’ve been working our way back into normalcy after a two-year stretch with a pandemic. There’s political unrest, war and inflation.All concerning for everyone no matter where you...
Can We Manifest Money?
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in the thing makes it happen. ~Frank Lloyd Wright The mind is incredibly powerful. What we think often becomes so. If you think the only way to happy is by having loads of money, and you don’t, you most likely won’t be happy. As the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright pens, “The thing always happens that you really believe in;...
Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
Do one thing every day that scares you. ~Eleanor Roosevelt A lazy Sunday afternoon swim with thunder rolling in the distance is my idea of a perfect setting. The sun is still shining, yet dark luminous clouds hang over simultaneously. I marvel at how I swam laps with such ease, yet with urgency, knowing a storm is not too far off. I am reminded of last year when I gasped for breath with only 5...
Are You Feeling Alone?
In each of us there is another whom we do not know. ~Carl G. Jung An excerpt from Release Your Obsession with YOUR PHONE: Heal from the Inside released this November... Are you searching high and low for that something—that something to fill the lull? Are you lonely, disconnected from others? If you scroll and scroll for hours on end through the different social media sites, ask yourself what’s...
Do Obsessions Awaken During Fourth of July Celebrations?
Today is the day to break free from the person you know you to be and step into a self you have yet to know. Will it be comfortable? No, but do it anyway. ~Debbie Ford The Fourth of July Independence Day is approaching. Happy Birthday America! A day worth remembering and reminiscing. The Fourth of July is the day America became independent of Great Britain. This day represents freedom to...
The Food and Mood Connection
One way to eat that promotes a positive outcome with foods is the Mediterranean diet, hands down it’s overall, healthy, high-quality dietary pattern not only for promoting a more stable mood but also an overall reduction in chronic health conditions.
Do You Suffer From FOMO?
There is only one success,to spend your life in your own way.~Christopher Morley An excerpt from the upcoming: Release Your Obsession with YOUR Phone: Heal from the Inside Out. To often we attempt to spend our life copying others, believing that’s the path to success. And perhaps sometimes it might be, but often it’s not. Why try to reinvent the wheel you might ask? But maybe their wheel is not...