Occasionally in life you will experience a challenge that is so overwhelming and intimidating that it threatens to consume your entire focus. Especially if there are no obvious solutions in sight, you might be tempted to believe that there is nothing you can do to change the situation. As a result, you may find yourself frequently overcome with strong emotions like anger, frustration, sadness, and despair. During times like these, there are two things that

When we are young, we feel like our uniqueness and weirdness is an impediment, rather than something to be loved. We fear being an outcast in school and sometimes even in our own homes. Feeling like an outsider can be painful. I love the movie The Breakfast Club because it shows how weird we all are, in our own ways. And we gravitate towards cliques of people that are “like” us, and in many cases,

When unexpected changes happen in life, it’s natural that you might feel a sense of apprehension about what lies ahead. This can be the case even when the changes seem to be positive. On some level, you still might hesitate and try to cling to the familiar because what’s ahead seems too uncertain. However, clinging to what is and trying to keep things exactly as they are usually only causes more stress and leaves you

Have you ever encountered someone who is desperately trying to win others’ approval and admiration? Chances are, they came across even more unlikeable because you could see their desperation to seem honorable. And anything good they do feels inauthentic. When you live with honor, you don’t need to pretend. You don’t have to try to be perfect, worry about how you are perceived, or try hard to earn respect. And you aren’t dependent on external

The movie Haunted Mansion reminds us that the only true failure is when you stop trying. As humans, we are wired to want immediate results. And when we don’t see them quickly, we easily feel defeated by setbacks. We are going to make mistakes and fail along our journey. Failure is experience and part of the process. What is truly failure, is refusing to try or get back up again.  When you feel like giving

Growth is a wonderful thing, but it often comes along with some discomfort. You may have heard the term, “growing pains” before, which usually refers to aches and pains in the legs of children as they are undergoing a phase of rapid physical growth and development. While most of your physical growth may have concluded by now, growing pains can also come along with intellectual, emotional, and spiritual growth. In order to grow and expand

Think about the last time you saw a snow-covered landscape. What did you see? What did you feel? Snow has the ability to make even the most dreary of places into a beautiful wonderland. Similarly, “Kindness is like snow. It beautifies everything it covers.” Kindness can make any bad day a whole lot better. In this post, we will look at the power of kindness, how it can trigger a chain reaction, and how to

Alice declares this quote in the movie, Alice in Wonderland. Like Alice, I think we have all found ourselves not following our own advice. I can guarantee you that I have written advice on this very blog and have failed to follow my own words of wisdom. Why is that? I think it’s fair to say that when we are dealing with our own problems, our judgment can be clouded by our emotional attachment to