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The Full Glass
Proponents of optimism and positive thinking (of which I am unabashedly an advocate, see links below on the health benefits) tell us to see the…
April 27, 2017Staying Calm when Angry
Anger can have a positive side; it energizes us when we are threatened or when boundaries have been violated. Unfortunately, most of the time anger…
April 20, 2017Micro-Moments of Positivity: One Secret to a Long Life
All else being equal, the happier you are, the longer and healthier your life. Anger, stress, gloominess, melancholy, downheartedness, the blahs, the funk, the blues:…
April 18, 2017Your Inner Life is Your Greatest Source of Strength
There is a voice inside your head that is constantly “on”, chattering away, talking to you. This voice has a personality, a world view, tendencies,…
April 13, 2017Creating Emotions That Serve You
We generally view emotions as like the weather: something that happens beyond our control that we just have to live with. The truth is we…
April 11, 2017Make Room for Gezellig in Your Life
Gezellig (heh-SELL-ick) is a Dutch word that has no English equivalent and which Wikipedia says is “A perfect example of untranslatability.” This is in…
April 6, 2017Happy Just Because
Novel Idea: You don’t NEED a REASON to be happy, you can choose to be “Happy Just Because”… you WANT to be happy. Yeah, I…
February 21, 2017Who ARE You?
More specifically, what is your self-concept? Who do YOU think you are? Who do you WANT to be? A self-concept is different from a Mission…
February 9, 2017“The Upward Spiral”
We all have gotten in a downward spiral; fears and worries and a bad event or two can knock us off course and it is…
February 7, 2017Do You Suffer From Atelophobia?
Atelophobia is the fear of imperfection, the fear of never being good enough and is kin to perfectionism, the obsessive compulsive striving to achieve impossible…
January 12, 2017Five Steps to Dissolve Limiting Beliefs
Our beliefs about what is possible limit our lives for we never attempt that which we do not believe we can do or that we…
January 5, 2017