Creative Success Depends on Long View
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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 [...]
Bucket List, Here I Come!
Recently in one of my latest trips to the doctor the topic of discussion was what was new regarding my cancer.
“Karen,” the doctor opened up her conversation, ‘Your cancer has spread to your liver. As it looks you have a few months to [...]
To Every Season
“The Autumn Leaves – drift by my window…” As the leaves turn and the temperature drops, is your autumn half full or half empty?
I have found through the years there are those who love the fall colors, brisk walks, Oktoberfests, [...]
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 [...]
Evolving Or Stagnating?
“You can’t wait for inspiration. Sometimes you have to go after it with a club.” ~ Jack London
Self-evolution is the ongoing process of change that allows us to recreate and create from our core. We’re powerful creators and continuously [...]
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 [...]
Hold The Sky: What You Can Do About Personal Grief
During your journey on Earth, you face incredible moments of joy, challenge and discomfort.
You never know where those “moments” may originate or for how long.
In your life, you may face an accident, loss of a loved one, disintegration of [...]
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?”
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 [...]
Diagonally Parked In A Parallel Universe: Confusion To Clarity
Confusion dominates American society.
Endless choices cause stress, uncertainty and frustration. Americans gobble painkillers, stomach calming pills and sedatives to relax themselves.
One look at the local news through the week illustrates bewilderment, [...]
The Gospel of LeBron
Ok let’s get something straight. I do not personally know LeBron James, but I live in Northeastern Ohio and have had the pleasure of watching one of the greatest basketball players on the planet.
I followed his stellar high school career [...]
Do You Know When to Follow and When to Lead? It Took LeBron 13,322 Days to Learn
Cleveland waited 13,322 days.
For 13,322 days fans held their breath. Four years adds up to 13,322 days of losing, and not being a part of the sports world. The Q, the building where the Cavaliers play, waited 13,322 days to be relevant once [...]
Dealing with Midlife Guilt and Shame
John Bradshaw, the award winning author of “Healing the Shame that Binds You ” says that “shame is the all pervasive sense that [you] are flawed and defective as a human being.”
Guilt, on the other hand, means you have [...]
Podcast: How To Step Out Of Your Own Shadow
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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. [...]
I Am Not My Hair
Every beautiful woman seems to be concerned about one thing.
Can you guess what that one thing is? No, you may be thinking relationships, work, children, self worth. Yes, she may think bout those things including health. You could say that what [...]
Podcast: Mindful Strategies For Teachers
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Educational Leader, Lee Guerette, is the author of Cognitive Yoga: Mindful Strategies for Teachers, who has 25 years of teaching experience and coaches educators in how to create an empowered learning environment for their students.
Mindful [...]
Life Choices: Confidence Versus Insecurity
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this trauma. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must [...]
The Elusive Happiness Factor: How To Discover It
By: Frosty Wooldridge
October 3, 2014 | Comments Off on 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 [...]
Gossip: The Devil’s Radio
Gossip remains the mainstay of social media, sewing clubs and emails worldwide.
Humans love talking about someone else more than the weather. They choose rumor, tattle-tales, speculation and allegation over facts, truth and reality.
Gossip may [...]
Learn How To Dribble A Football: Life Calls You
By: Frosty Wooldridge
September 25, 2014 | Comments Off on 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
By: Farnoosh Brock
September 23, 2014 | Comments Off on Podcast: Build & Grow A Profitable Side-Hustle
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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
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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 [...]
What Is Scareware?
When it comes to making us fall for their scams, cybercriminals have a number of tricks up their sleeves.
One of these tricks is to scare us into thinking that our computers or smartphones have become infected with malware to get us to purchase [...]
Dear Old Golden Rule Days
We “oldsters” all remember the ditty, “School days, school, days, dear old Golden Rule days…readin’ and writin’ and ‘rithmatic; taught to the tune of a hickory stick!
Oh the times, they are a changin’! First [...]
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 [...]
Would You Use Facebook To Catch A Bad Guy?
In Oklahoma, the OK state, an elderly couple was home invaded and held at knifepoint, and the woman was knocked to the ground.
During the ensuing abuse, their home was robbed and the predator got away. Not OK.
The police were notified and a [...]
Want To Be Grateful With Your Life Forever?
By: Mary Ann Sheveland
September 10, 2014 | Comments Off on Want To Be Grateful With Your Life Forever?
Have you ever thought that gratitude strengthens your immune system and makes you happy and more optimistic?
Rather than focusing on what we don’t have, why not focus on what we do have?
When we spend time focusing on our blessings we [...]
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