Are you really living or are you just existing? We tend to choose to exist because it’s safer. Really living requires courage and a vulnerability that is just plain scary to most of us. Why don’t we live like we’re dying? (Spoiler alert – we are all dying.) We are perishable items and our time here is limited. Yet we forget that and fall into our daily patterns and routines. We stay inside our lanes,

When unexpected or bad things happen, we can feel incredibly overwhelmed. Just look at the past 20 months since the pandemic. Many of us have faced so much uncertainty, loss, and serious hardships. Often times when we focus on things that have already happened, we become depressed – just like when we focus on the future we can become anxious. But when we focus on the present and what we do control, we light our

When your heart and thoughts change, you start making those small changes that end up changing your life. And we know that change happens when we change the small things we do daily. Last Friday night, after healthy eating all week, we had pizza night. We make homemade New England Greek style pizzas, and it truly is a taste of home for us. Where we currently live does not have good Italian food at all.

Any time we feel rejected it can cause us to question what we are doing. Remember that rejection isn’t your final chapter and it isn’t a statement about who you are or your worth. It is merely something that happens to us to test whether or not we are serious about moving onto our next chapter. I have seen too many people completely paralyzed by their fears for years. And nothing changes in their life.

We tend to gravitate towards people who are like us and what we put out into the universe has a way of coming back to us. We all radiate energy, it’s just a matter of what kind. If you are positive and excited about life, you will attract the same and be attracted to the same. Likewise, if you are negative or always looking for ways to be offended, you will find yourself surrounded by

What we choose to tolerate will continue. This applies to our relationships as well as ourselves. By tolerating any behavior or situation we don’t want to tolerate, we are showing ourselves and other people that what we say is intolerable, actually is tolerable, because we aren’t doing anything about it. Let’s start with what you choose to tolerate within yourself. Anything you choose to tolerate will not be something you are motivated to change inside

Most of the time when things are going really bad, it is right before you catch a break. Sometimes things have to get worse, before they can get better. For these men and women, they faced rejection, failure and even despair. Thomas Edison – He was told by his teachers that he was ‘too stupid to learn anything’. He went on to hold more than 1,000 patents, including the phonograph and practical electric lamp. Steven

Did you know that eighty percent of all choices are based on fear? Most people don’t choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe. But the truth is, when we choose a safer path, we are still taking a risk. We are choosing what we think will be a safe choice. But there is no way for us to really know how safe it really is. The only measurement we have is