The first time we try something it’s awkward, most often difficult, and usually not that successful. Trying it again is the only way we can become more than we are now.
Knowing what we're focusing on can impact our lives dramatically. Here are 4 truths about what we spend our time thinking about.
Our words matter. When we say something out loud, we want our actions to be consistent with those words. Find out how your words are helping or hurting your life.
Most of us can get pulled into Facebook or spend hours watching TV and later feel like it was a total waste of time. How are we supposed to deal with all the information coming at us?
It's more than chocolates and roses. In honor of Valentines Day, when we stop and think about love, here are 50 ways to show it to one another. I am talking about true and genuine love. Positive and healthy ways to show love.
As we go through life, we grow physically and age chronologically, but what happens to us mentally and emotionally? Are you using the same methods to process and live your life that you learned as a child?
Have you ever struggled with being heard? There are times when I explain myself but it’s clear that the listener doesn't understand. Why won’t they listen to me?!?
Do you have control over your emotions? Do you have control over other people's emotions? Sometimes we blame others for our emotions so we don't have to face what they reveal in us.
Our lives intersect one another every day. This may seem random and unplanned. I'm growing to understand, however, that these intersections are a lot less haphazard than I had previously thought.
What are the things we say when we aren’t as happy as we want to be, we haven’t lost the weight we want to lose, we feel our lives haven’t become what we wanted them to or we didn’t get the promotion we thought we deserved?
There's a piece of advice that changed my life. I wish I could remember who gave it to me.
As an adult, it's time to release our parents from the expectations we put on them as a child.
How do we love one another better? In the pursuit to love more freely and completely, beware of these emotional hazards which will cause the love to stop flowing. Can you find the theme among these 7 deadly sins?
It hurts to be ignored. It happened to me recently and I spiraled into the mindset of a victim and believing I am unworthy. For those of us prone to anxiety or depression, it’s an easy fall. There is a solution. It just takes a little courage.
Are you having trouble with a relationship? Dig deep and ask yourself what these troubles say about you. Are you doing whatever it takes to keep the relationship alive? You may want to re-think that.
All kinds of things can go wrong with houses. There are leaky pipes, chipping paint, and design flaws. Let’s say our body and mind is a house. Here are 10 ways to do home improvement to stand strong and beautiful.
What do you do when someone’s words crush you? How do you handle your hurt feelings caused by someone else? When we have disagreements, there is some form of one of us thinking, ‘I’m not enough’ or ‘you’re not enough’ and the other one believing it. Here is how to eliminate these difficult feelings with just one step.
I woke up and didn’t want to get out of bed. It was just too much to take. I wanted to hide from the difficulties that were right in front of me. Although things were not that bad right now, I anticipated that things were going to get much much worse.
We can all be guilty of putting people in boxes. Some of it is normaland sometimes it is judgmental. Either way, it is a good idea to deconstruct the boxes we have put people in so that we can see all that they are and expose our judgments so they can be thrown away.
It’s a burden to carry around a grudge against someone
It is easier to let it go
Hanging on to it only keeps me in the past
I can move forward
I am free!