You want a bigger life? Here’s my advice: make a Life List, which is a list full of things you want to do/have/be while you’re still around. Here’s why: 1. it’ll give you focus, 2. once you put your wishes onto paper, many (if not all) those wishes will come to pass without a whole lot of […]
Sometimes life hands you a box of darkness. Here’s something I know to be true: the fastest way for you to find your way back to the light is to look for the gift in that box, even if that gift happens to be the size of a pinprick and heavily camouflaged and takes some […]
“We don’t see the world as it is, we see it as we are.” —Anaïs Nin You will live out what you believe I’ve said it before on this blog (in fact, the very last blog post) and I’m saying it again because I promise you that it’s true: you will live out […]
Ever wonder: Just how did you end up where you don’t want to be? How come you keep doing things you tell yourself you don’t want to do? Or always seem to get this close to getting something you desperately want only to make a bad choice that makes everything fall apart? Or work really […]
Here is the house. It was once pretty and white. Now the bushes are dead. The roof leaks. The front door hangs crooked. See the bedroom. The wallpaper has gray flowers. It peels away from the wall in strips. The window is broken. There is a dirty mattress on the floor. See Jane. She wears […]
She could never go back Once upon a time, there was a girl who fell in love. She thought he was the one, even though sometimes a little voice inside her told her that there was something not quite right about him. She said yes when he asked her to marry him, not knowing […]
So this rocking group of women I hang out with decided to do a challenge where every day they’d encourage their husbands/boyfriends. Well, encouraging other people has never been my problem. My issue has always been encouraging myself. So I decided to make up the Encourage Yourself 21-day Challenge. It’s about being your own cheerleader. It’s […]
