Winter Happiness and Well-Being #1
Saturday, 25 January 2014
It all begins with your mind, your attitude, helping yourself develop a perspective that is helpful, not counterproductive. Each season lasts 3 months, on the calendar. If you open the season of winter lamenting the shorter hours of daylight and the cold temps, you are setting your mental stage for depression and frustration. The trick
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What anxiety actually is
Tuesday, 21 January 2014
Anxiety is so prevalent that even Hollywood has gotten in on it and made movies to get us to share the experience and laugh about it, yes, laugh. What is it? Do you have it? Is it contagious? Is there a cure? There are many questions about the experience of anxiety that come into
Stepping into your life
Monday, 20 January 2014
This is about the time, each year, when discouragement is creeping in about sticking to New Year Resolutions. We hate when that happens, often to the point of just not making any resolutions. That, however, is a missed opportunity. We all want to be our best self. To make a resolution is really about having
We are doing our best, right?
Friday, 17 January 2014
There are days, like today, when I find myself on the phone with a dear friend and we are talking about how to craft a schedule for the day so all things are actually accomplished–we are laughing a bit and it is as we both sit in our respective houses laughing a bit and lamenting
What influences our moods
Friday, 10 January 2014
The weather has been a topic of conversation across the nation for nearly a month. However, very little of that news is actually news–we are all in the middle of living with the colder than normal temperatures and additional amounts of snowfall, no big announcements needed. It is winter, it is cold, there is snow.When
The K Factor
Tuesday, 07 January 2014
Where K = Kindness, and the factors are the things that lead to it.
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Be soft, fluid, flexible
Monday, 06 January 2014
There are many ways to be in this life experience, what is your way? What is your character? I mean by that — what is it that is you? Big question. Are you a warm and loving person who feels connection to others in this life? Or do you find yourself isolated and disconnected, somehow
The only New Year Resolution you need
Wednesday, 01 January 2014
Last night, as I was thinking about the many resolutions that have been made over the centuries, I wondered what percentage of them had been fulfilled. Given the manner in which discouragement is expressed annually within weeks of the new year, seems to be a safe bet, that the numbers are low. Why maintain a
The issue of happiness
Monday, 30 December 2013
People have a lot to say about the topic of happiness. Some people lament that it is not theirs to have, others get angry at people who proclaim such. There are people who feel as though somehow life has dealt them a wrong hand and happiness is only available through a medication. Nobody is right