Boost Your Courage and Nourish Yourself with Love

When times get hard you can boost your courage whenever you choose. That may sound like a tall tale, but it truly isn’t. Any time you are asked, by life or by your own choices, to explore in new directions, you have to stretch. And that stretch that will both challenge and nourish you.  It…

Relax and Enjoy Your Holiday Moments — Affirmations Help

Making time in your life to relax is often a challenge. And this is often especially true during the holiday season. Some people even experience the pressure to relax and enjoy this time as debilitating. And the truth is, if you are not able to relax, there’s a good possibility that stress will drain your…

Guilt and You — Root it Out Today with a Dose of Reality

In yesterday’s post I wrote about guilt and its debilitating effects — effects that you don’t have to accept in your life. If you take a moment and think about your biggest time-and-energy drains, my guess is that you might find guilt up there near the top of the list. So, today I’m going to…

Deep Breathing to Find Peace, Energy, and Time

Deep breathing is a simple and powerful skill. When you cultivate and practice it, you do yourself a huge favor. Easy and always-accessible, deep breathing is a practice that reduces stress, improves your health in some very clear ways, and offers renewed energy and clarity whenever you implement it. Honestly, it’s THAT helpful and good for…

Brainstorming with a Twist to Find Energy and Time

Brainstorming is a very effective tool for loosening up your energy and thinking when you’re stuck. It also helps you access creative, and sometimes unexpected, ideas. Today we’ll explore ways that brainstorming can also be a vehicle for turning negative thinking on its head. When you use brainstorming this way, you fundamentally and powerfully transform…

Stuck? Scared? Turn Toward Trouble and Find Time!

When you’re stuck, scared or just plain stymied, the temptation is to turn (or run) away from whatever you perceive as the problem.  It’s instinctual – a knee jerk reaction that may have saved us back when dinosaurs wandered the earth. But it often doesn’t serve us now.  In fact, in many cases it’s about…

Change and You-Use Affirmations to Shape Your Time!

Change is a fact of life. Whether it’s change that we choose, change that evolves over time, or change that arrives suddenly, change is disruptive… and change changes us! There are the changes that come with aging.  They arrive gradually but can feel sudden when