Do you ever get on a roll with great ideas? I mean you are totally inspired and the ideas are just pouring out of you? Suddenly you realize you're completely stuck. It's like you just raked up all the leaves in the yard and jumped in and now you're lying there looking up at the …
60-Second Shift to Positive Self-Talk
I have no shortage of negative self-talk and if I do happen to run low, I can always pull from the storehouse of mean or careless things other people have said. Or just pick up something from the bottomless pit of comparisons generated on social media. Can you relate? Negative self-talk is easy and cheap. …
Relational Junk Drawers
Can't everyone just get along?! Are you convinced that happiness awaits when you get all your relationships fixed? The reality is, there will always be someone mad at you or blaming you for ... {insert dramatic event or dysfunctional situation here}. If your goal is total harmony with the people in your life, you are on …
Bridges That Just Won’t Burn
What if you've already let go of the past, done the forgiveness thing and are happily going about living your life only to have one of the people you forgave punch you in the gut again with unkind words? Wouldn’t it be so much easier if they could just go back to not being a …
Commit to Your Plan
Planning is good and necessary, but at some point you have to execute on it or else it's just dreaming. Here four easy steps that will get you there! Commit Goals Action Celebrate Commit. If you tell someone you create the situation of having to explain yourself if nothing happens or you fail to make …
Dare Not To Compare
You've probably heard the phrase, "Dare to compare" used in advertising and commercials. It's a concept that definitely caught on. We are hooked, comparing everything we do, have and say with someone or something. Our entire being gets caught up in creating a picture-perfect life. We compare ourselves to others in every area of life: …