How many times have you been angry and regretted saying something to someone you love, the minute those words rolled of your tongue? I know I have. Many times. I’ve gotten into the habit when I am really upset about something that is a big deal, of giving myself 24 hours to let things calm down and really think about how I feel about what happened. In the past, I’ve really struggled with being able

How we spend our time and what we focus on, when no one else can see us, is really who we are. The problem for many of us, is that we tend to fill this time with things that we don’t even really value. For example, we can spend hours a day on social media, but is that who we really want to be? Or we can spend our free time distracting ourselves from working

Coined from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, this metaphor illustrates that people who run away from their challenges and problems die a little bit inside each time they do so. Their character slowly erodes away when they don’t confront what is ahead of them. Adversity and challenges help us develop character. How we overcome struggle defines who we are. It helps us develop resilience. These lessons are life skills and when we don’t develop them, we end

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,

in·teg·ri·ty: noun 1. the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness. 2. the state of being whole and undivided. We determine our own set of core values and morals. Having integrity means that we behave consistently with those morals and values – especially when no one is looking. Deviating from your own code can have some serious costs. When I was in high school, I got in a lot of trouble.

We tend to judge people as a means of making sense of why people do the things that they do. Our brains make snap judgments, so we can clear the confusion we have and move onto the next thing. When we judge someone, we tend to make a blanket judgment about who their character is, based on only a snapshot of their behavior. Say I called a customer service line because I had a problem

Standing your ground isn’t about being aggressive about what you believe or trying to push your beliefs onto someone else. It’s about knowing yourself and the things that really matter to you. It’s knowing your values and morals. And it’s about being in comfortable in your own skin with what you believe and standing up for it when it isn’t easy to do so. People who are willing to stand up for themselves or others

Steve Jobs was famous for saying, “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” To be successful in anything, you have to have some talent, but more so, persistence – a persistence that is fueled by a touch of madness. Let’s take a look at a few people who met failure after failure, yet trusted their own madness and created success: Thomas Edison – He