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Have You Exercised Your Happiness Muscle Lately?
As Abe Lincoln famously said: “Most of us are as happy as we make up our minds to be.” This suggests that to a large…
August 22, 2024Think the Right Thought
What does “Think the Right Thought” mean? First, acknowledge that you have the ability to choose the thoughts you think. Now it may be a…
August 13, 2024True Grit: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
True Grit: Call it resilience or perseverance or determination or courage or fortitude or toughness. Call it all of those things and more: steadfastness in…
August 6, 2024What is your Ikigai?
Ikigai (ee-kee-guy) is a combination of the Japanese words ‘iki’ (to live) and ‘gai’ (reason) literally meaning ‘reason to live’. What constitutes a fulfilling life…
July 18, 2024Be the Bee, Not the Fly
How you approach life powerfully impacts the life you experience. Do you stand outside yourself and observe how, in ways small and large, you are…
July 4, 2024How Cognitively Fit Are You?
We think a lot about physical fitness; seems like there is a gym every 10 blocks. We care about emotional fitness as well; at times…
July 2, 2024Seeing Souls Instead of Bodies
What if what folks saw was your soul, not your body? What would they think? How would you present? What would YOU see in the…
June 18, 2024To Live Above the Common Level of Life
‘To live above the common level of life’ means to strive for a life that transcends the ordinary or average, making conscious choices to elevate…
June 4, 2024Extraordinary Comes From How You Do the Day-to-Day Ordinary
Most of us have heard the quote attributed to Aristotle: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”…
May 21, 2024Are the Emotions You Are Creating Helping or Hindering You?
The formation of emotions is complex and almost always occurs beneath the level of our conscious awareness and there is also usually a delay between…
April 25, 2024Who Told You it Would Be Easy?
And if someone ever did, why would you believe them? If it were easy, everyone would do it, so what’s the point? Where is the…
April 16, 2024