Shrink Your Worry List...

Shrink your worry list. Examine areas in your life where anxiety rules. Does your worrying really make a positive difference in those situations? If not, dump the worry.” ~from Checklists for Life Good morning! Today’s quote is practical in nature, but one that we should no-doubt embrace. Worry has many similar characteristics to guilt. It hurts us much more than it helps. While a little worry or a little guilt keeps...

Small & Simple Changes...

“Try making two small changes every day. Take a different street, try a new restaurant, change your toothpaste, smile at someone you don’t know, eat dessert first. There’s a lot of landscape to explore off the beaten path.” ~Joan Borysenko, Ph.D. Good morning!  Today try having the curiosity of a child as you go about your daily routine. We can so quickly become enmeshed in our habits, we forget to look at all the opportunity and newness that is within our reach. Your turn: Today and for at least one week, try making two small changes every day as...

Life Prints...

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” ~ Pericles Good morning! Today and every day gives us an opportunity to “weave” our own positives into the lives of others. Each day, as we go about our business, we will interact with those both in and outside of our family. Each time we do, we leave a history. The type of ...

What are you thinking?...

“What you think, you become.” ~ Gandhi Good morning! Today we are going to do a simple “emotional self-check.” If you were to embrace the Gandhi quote, and then look at your life yesterday, and how you thought, what would you become? Your turn: Remember that each day we have the choice to think our own thoughts. Keep using your affirmations to inspire you and keep your thoughts on track. Try this ...

Good Morning - Challenging Circumstance...

“When we do face difficult times, we need to remember that circumstances don’t make a person, they reveal a person.” ~ Richard Carlson, Ph.D. Good morning! How easy it can be to throw our hands up when faced with difficult or trying times. It can be easy to put on that “poor me” hat and figure we are another victim of circumstance. While we may feel those emotions temporarily - we cannot hold onto...