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Crossing the Bridge into 2015

Quick as a wink, Christmas faded into our rear view mirrors. Up ahead, a brand spanking New Year 2015 awaits! New possibilities! Fresh ideas! A new set of 365 days to accomplish something marvelous in your life. What actions will you take in [...]

Unleash The Daring Dance Within You

Sometimes in life, no matter your stature, success, sartorial dress, rich or modest home, friends and magnificent job—you may come to a point of getting down on yourself. If you live by modest means or in poverty, you may come to the conclusion [...]

A Little Empathy For The Holidays

Our workplaces, public places and even entertainment places are almost under constant siege from frustration, anxiety and the resulting violence against each other. Whether such violence results in micro inequities, little slick comments which [...]

The Greatest Gift Of All

Everyone wants to give meaningful gifts, no matter what the occasion. There is only gift that tops all others for time eternal. Interesting, don’t you think, that people usually buy or make things – physical, material things? Things [...]

Societal Exhaustion In Our High Speed World: Slow It Down

You live in a high speed, high stress society. Everything ramps you up to meet deadlines, reach class on time and excel at work. You face texting, emails and Smart Phone recordings. If you’re a parent, you must take the kids to soccer practice, [...]

Do You Send Out “Happiness?”

It feels good to contribute and give of myself – so I do it.  By doing so, I come “ALIVE!” Your happiness is a gift that sends ripples of joy endlessly out.  This is a deposit of aliveness into all the experiences in your [...]

Ever want to “GIVE” to yourself?

Why not seize all the small daily occasions and make the day special for someone else? If you do, you will give to yourself. Once you have enough to meet your needs, you will find extra money and time do not increase your happiness.  It’s [...]

Attune To Your Heart, Mind And Body: Gift Of Appreciation

While growing up, you faced many challenges. You tackled schoolbooks that demanded your attention to gain knowledge. Your teachers busted your butt with homework assignments. Your parents piled on chores such as mowing the lawn, washing the [...]

Podcast: How To Effortlessly Maximize Energy & Performance

Listen Here: Helen Marie Loorents is the Founder and CEO of Fastrack Wellness Corporation, is a certified health & life coach, wellness consultant to Fortune 500 companies and author of the new book Fastrack to Wellness: Good Health, Good [...]

Podcast: Unwrap Your Greatest Gift In Life

Listen Here: Tiffany Mason is an international life and relationship coach, speaker and author. She is the founder of Mason Coaching and Consulting, a lifestyle coaching firm where she empowers women to design a meaningful life and marriage. [...]

If Holiday Stress Is A Disease, The Virus Is Your Expectations

The holiday season steriotypically has always been portrayed as a time of fun, joy and warmth with family, friends and colleagues. But it can also be a time of pain and high expectations. And the inevitable disappointments that follow those [...]

Podcast: Living Beyond The Wig

Listen Here: Felicia M Hazzard is contributor to the book HERspectives, Rules and Tools that Build Successful Women: How I Created Work/Life Balance which features her memoir Living Beyond The Wig, the story of her experience living with breast [...]

Podcast: Take The Plunge & Re-Invent Yourself!

Listen Here: Victoria Hargis is an expert in life transitioning.  At age 30 she became a widow and learned her youngest child had a terminal illness, ultimately passing away when he was 13. Victoria then spiraled into a deeper level of grief [...]

How Do You Define Thanks?

Gratitude in action starts with feeling your own thankfulness then encourages you to put it in action. The following is one perspective on giving thanks and what you can do to keep it in motion. T is for Time– Be thankful for time. Having [...]

A ‘Center For Happiness’

Listening to “Happiness Princess” Laura Lavigne feels like participating in an Easter egg hunt. You never know where you might discover the next treasure. You cannot imagine what you might find. She “eggs” you on toward your own riches [...]

You Against Yourself: Which Wolf Wins?

At one point in history, President Thomas Jefferson faced a national crisis. He said, “We have a wolf by the ears; he’s too dangerous to keep and he’s even more dangerous if we let him go.” Jefferson also spoke about his own battles [...]

When Expectations Lead To Happiness

Expectations, outcomes you desire when thinking about some future event, sometimes lead you into a place of joy and success. Other times expectations bring you disappointment and despair. How you experience life depends on the scenario you choose [...]

Ready To Re-Charge Your Batteries?

I truly believe that it is very important to have activities outside of our normal work day that brings us joy. When we get so caught up in helping others, sometimes, we forget to help ourselves.  We suddenly forget what is really important [...]

Your Inner Connection To Others

On first glance, you may assume I’ll be talking about communicating to others via phone, email, texting, writing, video, photos – heck even talking to them – but I have more in mind here. In my happiness research, the prime principle [...]

Happy People Thoughts

Most positive people have a deep belief and understanding that things always change and evolve. They realize that emotions come and go, a bad moment does not mean a bad day.  Tomorrow is a brand new day.  They always remember to have hope [...]

Life: Your Highest Performance Of Function

“Life” charges around your body every second of every day until your last breath on Earth. Your red blood cells race through thousands of miles of arteries, capillaries and veins. Everything about you thrives toward performance and function. Blood [...]

Celebrate Each Day Like It’s Thanksgiving!

Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the number of moments that take your breath away. Why not celebrate each day as Thanksgiving by living with the spirit of the day? Why not live each day appreciating what we have [...]

Coming Through The Fire: Your Road Less Traveled

By the time you reach your senior year in high school, it dawns on you that this life offers no easy path. You discovered the only way to succeed academically or athletically: study your butt off and/or practice your sport until your body felt [...]
Happiness Is Not Events – It’s A Lifestyle

Happiness Is Not Events – It’s A Lifestyle

“You may wake up unable to speak or swallow, “ the neurosurgeon cautioned me before surgery to remove a sizeable brain tumor that wrapped around my brain stem. Though I did not say anything, in my mind I remarked, “That is not going to [...]
Do You Spend Time Looking For "Your Thang?"

Do You Spend Time Looking For “Your Thang?”

It’s pretty funny, annoying and brilliant, how often things turn out to be nothing like we thought they would be. So much time is spent wondering what our “thing” is.  I thought long and hard about how would I ever know which [...]
Podcast: How To Step Out Of Your Own Shadow

Podcast: How To Step Out Of Your Own Shadow

Listen Here: Debbie Pokornik is the Chief Empowerment Officer for Empowering NRG which helps moms who struggle with a hectic home life transform their relationships so they are re-energized and fall back in love with their lives. Debbie [...]

Do You Look Forward To Each Day In Your Life?

When we don’t look forward to something, when we simply don’t enjoy it, we are not living in the present moment. It’s like life is rushing past us and we feel we are simply waiting for something more interesting to come along. [...]

The Elusive Happiness Factor: How To Discover It

If you look around your community whether you share a schoolroom, workout class or meeting place—someone laughs a lot, smiles and expresses their happiness. How come some people express happiness while others slog through their days? What [...]

Live Happily Ever After—Day To Day

Snow White discovered her prince, embraced him and kissed him. Prince Charming swept her off her feet and carried the young maiden to the castle to live happily ever after. John Wayne, Clint Eastwood and Steve McQueen captured the desperadoes [...]

Is Being Happy And Being Grateful The Same Thing?

Often times the words “happy” and “grateful” are used interchangeably. If you’re happy, you must be grateful too and vice-versa.  There’s no question that both words describe a person who is content in that moment of happiness or [...]

Learn How To Dribble A Football: Life Calls You

The famous automobile maker Henry Ford said, “If you think you can or can’t, you’re right.” Almost everything in your life boils down to how you think, speak and act. High thinking creates high vibrations in your mind and body. Such [...]

Podcast: Build & Grow A Profitable Side-Hustle

Listen Here: Farnoosh Brock is an entrepreneur, author, business coach, green juice addict and devout Ashtanga yogini. After a successful corporate career at a Fortune 100 company, she started Prolific Living Inc. to fulfill her entrepreneurial [...]

Podcast: From Average To Amazing In 30 Days

Listen Here: Dr. Drema Dial is a psychologist and life coach based in Austin, TX. The heart of Dr. Dial’s work is to help people challenge their roadblocks and to help them unlearn old habits. Her latest book is Creating the Life You [...]

Should You Love Yourself MORE?

All of us want to be happy, but sometimes we hold ourselves back from that possibility. You know that little voice inside of your head; you know the one I am talking about.  Sometimes we listen even when we shouldn’t.  This little voice [...]

Making Midlife Magnificent

Midlife doesn’t have to be a depressing time of your life even though your challenges are getting tough. It doesn’t have to be overwhelming or difficult. It can be something good and enjoyable. And it can be exciting, invigorating [...]