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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Those of us with the planner gene have an easy time with this, but some people might bristle when I talk about project planning. To me, project planning is a fun way to spend an hour of my free time. For you, you might prefer to outsource the project planning. Neither of us is right; neither...

Many of us have a hard time letting go of old ideas because we think that we are expected to hold onto them. Like out-of-date clothing that no longer fits, limiting beliefs and mistaken ideas should be tossed out without a second glance. Yet if you think that everyone else still holds that...

Like limiting beliefs, mistaken beliefs are ideas that are holding us back. The difference is that mistaken beliefs, in my book, are ideas that actually harm you. That make you feel less than, unworthy, or stuck. They are ideas that you accepted as true, but some part of you knows that...

Patterns of thought are ideas that we hold on repeat, or we allow to persist. When we take action on an idea, the idea seems to dissipate and leave us alone. When we don’t take action, there is often a contrary idea that is keeping us from moving forward. These contra ideas are what I call...