What creates a spark for you? What motivates you to change from one way of being to another? Hopes are optimistic wishes for positive future outcomes that are perceived as achievable. Dreams are aspirational goals, visions, or fantasies for the future, ranging from...
What’s more fun than spending time with happy people? Happiness is healthy for our mind and body. Also, happiness is magnetic and highly contagious. When the home team wins a sporting event, it’s wonderful to laugh and sing and embrace perfect strangers to celebrate....
It is always a good time to reflect on kindness! When we are feeling stressed and frazzled and kindness seems an irrelevant ideal, an act of kindness becomes a profound spiritual practice. Kindness always makes a situation better. Especially in times that are...
When times are hard, the true nature of humanity reveals itself. Just within the past few years, the human family has experienced a lifetime worth of challenges: a global pandemic, catastrophic weather events, political and social and financial upheaval, and the...
One of my friends was recently telling me stories about her mother’s favorite method of procrastination, which was to say, “I’ll get to (insert any task) as soon as all of this nervousness is over.” Whether it was cleaning out the closet or shedding a few extra pounds...
Time for New Beginnings! Really? As I put away the last of 2024, I realized a few things. First, the prospect of 2025 signifies a fresh start. Next, is the idea that all of my old self will be with me as I turn the page on the calendar. All of my successes along with...
