Category: Balance

love yourself

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The Healthy Upside and Potential Downside of Amour Proper

Amour proper is French and means literally “self-love”. As a philosophical concept, it is found in the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Blaise

summum bonum

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Summum Bonum

Summum bonum is a Latin phrase meaning “the highest good” and represents a concept introduced by the Roman philosopher Cicero. While some

mfd

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Embracing MFD

MFD stands for “Mostly Fine Decision” and means what is the minimum outcome that is satisfactory, that you would be fine with?

road less comfortable

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Choosing The Road Less Comfortable

A life of severe abstinence can be as destructive to the soul as a life of excessive indulgence. As always, it is

firm but flexible

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A Popular Bit of Advice…That is Occasionally Out and Out Wrong

Never Give Up Folks, I’m about as driven as they come, stubborn and head strong. And yet… I’ve learned that there are

body mind soul

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Words that Guide My Soul

Even the best of us have our off days; days when we choose to see slights in what is often merely the

time

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Time is Not Created Equal

All minutes are not the same! The value of a minute varies according to the time of day and YOUR corresponding energy

accepting help

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Accepting Help

This blog is in many respects a mea culpa, an acknowledgement of a personal growth opportunity. In the past, I’ve frequently been

Self-Improvement

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Forget New Year’s Resolutions

Better a small promise kept than a larger one broken. Most New Year’s Resolutions fail because they are lofty goals with insufficient

A Day of Thanks A Moment of Perspective

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A DAY OF THANKS, A MOMENT OF PERSPECTIVE

“The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a

time or emails

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But Then I Won’t Have Time to Finish My Emails

A Senior Team Member at The Collier Companies was encouraging someone to get out on site more often (we rent Apartment Homes).