Who Are You, Really?
You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself. ~Harvey S. Firestone Oftentimes, we walk through life with a mask on our authentic self. We pretend to be something we think someone wants us to be. But it leaves us feeling empty and fake. Perhaps you suffer from the imposter syndrome. You’re not feeling real. You put forth a you that you don’t quite feel is you—that soon,...
What is Your Obsession?
Our Imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. ~Charles F. Kettering Are you obsessed? Most of us have some sort of obsession from time to time. But some obsessions take hold in a way that disrupts the quality of life; and that’s not the obsession anyone wants. What are obsessions? Obsessions are thoughts, images, or ideas that won’t go away. They are unwanted and...
Giving Feels Good!
Giving is better than receivingbecause giving starts the receiving process. ~Jim Rohn An Excerpt fromRelease Your Obsession with Money: Heal from the Inside Out Money, money, money—it seems to take on a power greater than its reality. A funny thing about money is that the more you give away, the more that flows back to you. As the great motivator Jim Rohn wrote, Giving is better than...
Do You Suffer From FOMO?
There is only one success,to spend your life in your own way.~Christopher Morley An excerpt from: Release Your Obsession with YOUR Phone: Heal from the Inside Out. Too 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 your wheel....
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...
Ten Steps Toward Your Authentic Self
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.~Helen Keller If not my money who am I? So many ask this question, “If not my money, who am I?” They’re placing money as their worth, which isn’t really who you are. You are first your self-worth over and above your net-worth. Money is a number; it doesn’t have a heartbeat....
Are You On The Monday Diet?
Do you feel you’re doing everything right, but your weight keeps increasing, and your night-before promise to yourself to start clean eating disappears by the end of the following day?
Cadbury Anyone?
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out the window... but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. ~Mark Twain Twenty-seven years ago, my mom had a massive stroke on Easter weekend—somehow it seems almost like yesterday. Every Easter, too many to count, I loaded the car early Saturday mornings with son Benjamin and Oscar (my Pug!) in tow and headed out on a four-hour drive from...
Connecting Only to Disconnect
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 Out 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 really going on....
Do You Wake with Purpose?
The spiritual life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. ~Anais Nin A package arrived the other day from Amazon. It perplexed me, as I had ordered nothing for a while. Feeling around on the envelope, I realized it was a book. I love to read and knowing there was something I didn’t order; I got super excited.I ripped open the envelope and pulled it out; a book with a...