The joy of the holiday season doesn’t end with gift giving. Instead, it starts on the day we exchange gifts. The days after that are the true holidays as we relax into being together, days off, and family time.

Yet the gift giving day gets most of our attention. I suppose that’s normal, given that ...

In the last post, we redefined success to focus on the moments. We boldly reclaimed our power to define success for ourselves, and then created a definition that empowered us, instead of a definition that fatigues us. And that fatigue is the topic for today.

Fatigue is an indicator that we are goin...

Believing in yourself, and your ability to know, is a key element of a successful life. How can you know that you have achieved success, however, until you define success? So today I am writing about my personal definition of success.

Believing in yourself, and your ability to know, is a key elem

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What if our thoughts were visible?

What if they took on the form of a cloud, whose size would reveal how often you had that thought?

What if a single idea was like a strand of cotton candy that adhered together with like ideas until the group of ideas was a sticky mess?

That’s how I see beliefs...

When life presents you with options, my preferred means of progressing is to ask myself, what is the best course of action for me? Which path benefits me? Which option will lead to greater joy for me?

I ask these questions not because I am selfish. I ask these questions because the only answers I c...

We all have a piece of ourselves that we keep for us. A private inner voice that we reserve for ourselves, when we need to tune out our surroundings and find a source of inner strength. I personally find mine through writing, and I am learning to access it all throughout my day.

This piece of me, t...

Happy Black Friday, the day when we all rush out to seek the best deals for our holiday shopping needs.

What if we all dropped the pretense of needing to shop, and instead embraced the fun of gifting?

Remember, back in the day, when it was fun to give a gift? Where we got all excited and had a har...

Being generous with your time is one way to give to others. Being generous with the ideas you hold for others is yet another way. Being generous to yourself and others, at the same time, creates some real magic.

Holding a positive expectation of success, for another, is a gift. Holding a positive

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I am frugal by nature. Not cheap, but frugal. I actually believe we all are, at our core.

I see my core essence as helping me no matter where I am in life. It’s there for me. It’s rooting for me. It’s helping me to find the best way forward for me.

In this way, my core essence accepts me as I am. ...

When you start on a spiritual journey, what you don’t realize is that most of the journey is about going back to prior versions of yourself and picking them up for the ride that is your life. It’s about seeing, and re-seeing, your past, to say, I accept who I was then. It is about bringing all your ...

When you delve into a practice of deciding what you believe, it’s important to develop a habit of being honest with yourself. Many of us adopt, and perpetuate, beliefs that we think we should. And in so doing, we edit ourselves out of the picture.

When you delve into a practice of deciding what y

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