Superlative Tuesday
The Most Fun New Book About Creativity The Creative License by Danny Gregory. Why do I love it? It makes creativity fun and practical and do-able. So many books on creativity (especially the ones you find on business blogs) are so inaccessible and so mental […]
Gratitude Journals and Why They Work
My last post was about gratitude and its relationship to our happiness and abundance. If you’re like me, you can read a post like that and think, “Yea yea yea. That’s great. I’ll be more gratitudinal.” (Well, maybe you don’t make up words like I […]
Why Gratitude Makes You Happier and Wealthier
(In Honor of Thanksgiving.) Gratitude is about so much more than being thankful. Gratitude is a practice. For some, it is a way of life. Why do some people swear by this practice? Why do those people live happier and more abundant lives than everyone […]
Nervous Food and Why It Matters
We’re coming up on the weekend. After that, we’re coming up on the holidays. It’s time to talk about nervous food. Nervous food is my name for appetizers. It’s my word for anything people eat when they’re in social situations, and they’re grabbing at food […]
How to Break Up with Your TV
If television is an issue for you, then most likely it’s an after-dark issue. I’m going to assume that if you’re reading my blog, you’re not reclining in a chaise lounge at noon with a martini glass and Jerry Springer on the tube. If you […]
Everything I Needed to Learn, I Learned Randomly This Week
– Listen to Commercial Radio at Your Own Risk Early in the week, I turned on the radio in my car just for kicks. The song that was playing was “O Holy Night.” It was being sung by some four-notes-where-there-was-only-one-note-written Mariah Carey type. I was […]
10 Things to Do When the Dirt Comes Up
In our last episode, I wrote about how a mentor of mine has told me that when a seed is planted, the first thing that comes up is a little dirt. She says this to help any of her students and mentees get through the […]
When the Dirt Comes Up
One of my mentors says that when you plant a seed, the first thing that comes up isn’t the perfectly formed sprout. The first thing that comes up is dirt. Same thing with setting intent. Same thing with shifting your thoughts to create a better […]
Don’t GET Rich Quick. BE Rich Quick.
If you believe in the Law of Attraction and like attracting like, then getting anywhere is not an option. There is no there to get to. You gotta already be there. You have to experience the feelings and the knowing of that thing you want. […]
Invitation to a Prayer List
A few weeks ago, I was emailing with a well-known author and speaker. At the end of our exchange, she wrote that she had “added me to her prayer list.” She wrote what she would pray for, and what she was affirming for me (as […]