Feeling stressed is the result of leaving the present moment for some imagined scenario in a different time, either a future or past. You pick your poison. That is why you feel stressed. Come back to the present moment. Your breath is a good anchor to latch onto, because you tend to only breathe in … Continue reading Stressed
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Be Present
I'm starting to realize that when I stop worrying so much about knowing all of the right answers, that they end up coming to me pretty easily. When I stop worrying about what would be the right thing to say, that's when the words come to me effortlessly. And when I stop thinking about what … Continue reading Be Present
Reaction
Whenever things seem like they are totally out of control, remember that the only thing we ever really have control over is our reaction to what's happening. That's actually the most powerful thing to have control over anyway. It means that our happiness is in our power. We get to choose if we want to … Continue reading Reaction
Gratitude
The best way to get out of a dark, funky mood, is to deliberately focus on gratitude. Start listing things that you are grateful for. It can be as seemingly simple as being grateful for the chair you're sitting in, or even for the socks on your feet. You can really get into it when … Continue reading Gratitude
Faith
Sometimes all you have to hold onto, is your faith that things will turn out for the best. And that is enough. Every time. Keep the faith.
Enjoy
Are you enjoying life? Do you take time to notice all the wonder and beauty of the simple things around you? How often do you just play and have fun? Doing these things are the mark of a successful life. Little kids and puppies are experts at this. They marvel and wonder and enjoy the … Continue reading Enjoy
March On
When I was a kid, I would often hear adults say that I "marched to the beat of my own drum." In other words: I didn't act, think, or behave in line with the standard, societal norms. Either I seemed decades older than my age in maturity, dispensing wisdom and opinions to any adult who … Continue reading March On
Manifestation
You get to create the life that you want, you just have to know exactly what that is. You have to be able to see your target in order to hit it. So, you have to get clear about what it is that you want to create. And then all you have to do, is … Continue reading Manifestation
Action
Start loving who you are now. Find what you can love about your life right now. Start feeling excited about getting to wake up each day, and be you. There's no need to wait for certain conditions to happen before you can love yourself. Those conditions may never happen, and even if they do, you'll … Continue reading Action
See it
You see what you want to see. Your mind will interpret events based on your beliefs. And you will find the "proof" to anything you want, based on what you've decided is true. This can be truly frustrating. Especially when you discover that people you care about seem to willfully see the opposite reality of … Continue reading See it
Choose
A peaceful life is the result of choosing to be peaceful as many times as you can make that choice. A joyful life is the result of choosing to be joyful as often as you possibly can. A life filled with respect and dignity comes from making respectful and dignified choices. You get to help … Continue reading Choose
Thought
Whenever I worry about not being where I want to be yet in life, I stop to think about all of the things that are going on in my life right now, that I used to only dream and think about happening one day. My life is truly the result of what I've thought about … Continue reading Thought
Now
Make a commitment to enjoy your life now, even if you haven't achieved all you want to achieve yet. Decide to love yourself now, even if you aren't in your ideal shape or weight yet. Make a commitment to feel worthy now, even if you don't have the job, degree or net worth you dream … Continue reading Now
Be Kind
The best thing you can do, is to choose to be kind over being right. It will save you a lot of aggravation in the end. You may think that you need to fight for your position in a dispute, but all you're really fighting for is your limitations. No amount of being right can … Continue reading Be Kind
New Year
On New Year's Eve, we all had our own way of saying goodbye to last year. On New Year's Day, we all had our own way of looking ahead to what the new year can bring. Now we all get to go about living and loving in this brand new year. Now is the time … Continue reading New Year
Wonderful
Be the hero that you've been looking for to rescue you. Be the guardian angel you've wanted to pop up and point out to you how it's truly a wonderful life. That's not to say that you can only rely on yourself and that there aren't heroes and guardian angels out there to be found. … Continue reading Wonderful
Give it Your All
Forgive freely. Drop your gripes. Let them go, so you can move forward. Give it your all each day, as if it's your last. One day it will be. In the meantime, remember that every ending is also a beginning. As it is with the end of this year, and now the beginning of the … Continue reading Give it Your All
Keep Believing
Keep believing in your dreams, even when it seems like they're taking forever to come true. Especially when it seems like they're taking forever to come true. If you stop believing in them before you can see them, then you're only guaranteeing that you never will. You have to believe in them to see them, … Continue reading Keep Believing
Answers
Life is one big, confusing mystery. Or is it? Could it be that life is only a mystery because of our belief that it is? What if we started believing that life wants to show us exactly what we are looking for? What if we started to believe that life is generous and beautiful and … Continue reading Answers
Consistency
The way to achieve lasting, positive change, is to break it down into bite-size, achievable tasks that you can work on and improve each and every day, and then stay consistent with it, each and every day. Consistency really is key. It's the way to ensure having a better life. And breaking down your tasks … Continue reading Consistency
Rush
Do you find yourself rushing through life? What are you rushing for? Where do you have to go that is so far away? Why do you need to get there so quickly that you have to blur by most of your actual life in order to reach it? What happens when you do make it … Continue reading Rush
Wonderful Life
If you stop to take a breath, and really look, you'll see that it truly is a wonderful life, if only because you're around to live it. Also, a great way to guarantee this, is to start claiming it. Start professing that it's a wonderful life, and watch as you've just made that come true.
The Gift
There a countless trinkets, gadgets and baubles that you can gift to your loved ones. You can spend an exorbitant amount of money on presents. But ultimately, the most precious gift you could ever give someone is your pure, loving, heart-felt, full attention. Your attention is the most valuable commodity in the world. Just ask … Continue reading The Gift
Snippet
The things you see are only a fraction of the story. If you allow yourself to be open to see more, you'll find that there's so much more to the story than you ever considered possible. Awareness starts with realizing that you're only seeing just a snippet of the story.
Present Moment
It's usually much scarier in your mind, than it is out there in the present moment. So, when it does start to get too scary for you, remember to take a breath and get into the present moment. That's where the magic is to feel real joy, and it's certainly where you have all the … Continue reading Present Moment
Faith
At some point, especially in trying times, we need to make a choice for our lives. We can either let our fears get so big that they completely take over, or we can fully turn away from them and face forward in faith. We can choose to let our faith be bigger than our fears. … Continue reading Faith
Traditions
We all have holiday traditions that we perform year after year. Things we cook and bake, festive places that we visit, and favorite movies that we watch over and over, year after year. And of course we share these traditions with the special people in our lives. Sometimes it can seem like we're just going … Continue reading Traditions
Relax
Where do you have tension? What are you resisting against, either physically or mentally? Why? How long do you have to brace yourself against this thing? Can you finally just let it go? Living in tension is an exhausting way to live. Can you let yourself just breathe, let the chips fall where they may, … Continue reading Relax
Awareness
The cool thing about tapping into Awareness, is when you realize that the things you are sure you know all about, are actually only that way in your mind. You're seeing things only as you think they should be. You're thinking it all up. When you become aware of your thinking, rather than believing that … Continue reading Awareness
Your Path
A friend recently shared a post that hit home for me. It helped describe the greatest lesson I've learned for how to live my life. It basically said to not feel bad if someone plays dirty to outrun me in the rat race. Because check it: I am not a rat, and I am not … Continue reading Your Path
Growth
With every new day you get a chance to become better. With every new day you get a chance to be kinder than you were before. With every new day you get a chance to be the best person you can be. You'll be growing with each new day regardless, it just makes life much … Continue reading Growth
Connections
Check in with the people you care about, and make a point to visit with each other. Social media is great, but it can deceive us into thinking we are actually checking in with each other, when really we're just following a curated narrative. So, if they are really important to you, check in with … Continue reading Connections
Good Living
The goal for me is not to live a long time, necessarily, but to feel really good about living for as long as possible. What's the point in getting to be 110 years old, if you're mostly incapacitated, and perpetually agitated? The goal shouldn't be to stay alive for as long as possible at all … Continue reading Good Living
Positive Thoughts
Plants, pets, and people all need food, water and sunlight to live and grow. If you take those things away, they whither and die. In a similar way, thoughts need attention to live and grow. When you take your attention away from thoughts you no longer want to think, they will whither and die. But … Continue reading Positive Thoughts
The Journey
Keep going. You don't have to race. Your life will proceed at its own pace anyway. So you might as well embrace the flow, rather than resist it or try to push it. They say that it's all about the journey and not the destination. So enjoy the journey. That journey is your life.
Evolve
You are not done. Nothing is ever done. It's always changing, evolving and growing. Who you are today will change by tomorrow, even if only ever so slightly. Your beliefs, your knowledge, and certainly your life experience will keep changing. And that goes the same for everyone else. Just think about it. If you were … Continue reading Evolve
Now
The way I figure it, since we only get to go through this particular life once, we might as well be sure and do the right thing now. It's like those people who put plastic on their furniture, so it stays nice. Nice for when? What are they waiting for? Some "special occasion" that might … Continue reading Now
Living
I was a volunteer for a hospice for a while, visiting with the patients and keeping them company whenever their family couldn't be there, so they wouldn't be alone. What struck me the most about those experiences, were that these people, who were in the last weeks and days of their lives, all seemed to … Continue reading Living
What You Want
Focus on what you want in your life. That's the way to get it. This sounds simple enough in theory, but it's actually not so easy to pull off in practice. Just notice your thoughts for an afternoon, and you'll realize that they are mostly about what you don't want. But all is not lost. … Continue reading What You Want
Saving Grace
Focus on gratitude. It's your saving grace. No matter what you may be going through, there is always, always something to be grateful for. Focusing on gratitude calms your worried mind, and helps joy to seep in. The more you focus on being grateful, the more you realize how blessed you really are. It's a … Continue reading Saving Grace
Things Could Go Right
There are many reasons why things could go wrong. Oh, but there are so many other reasons why things could go right. In fact, things could go so much better than you can even imagine. Why not focus on how good things can get? It just might be the secret sauce to manifesting that kind … Continue reading Things Could Go Right
Bright Lights
Be a good person. Try to brighten someone else's day, every day. Be somebody that shines so bright, that other people feel that their world lightens up when you are around them. Be a light to the world. It could sure use a lot less of gossips and cynics, and a whole lot more people … Continue reading Bright Lights
Absolutely Unique
Everyone wants to live in a world where everyone else sees the world through their perspective. Everyone wants to be right, and they want to be acknowledged as being on the right side of history. But when we refuse to see that everyone else has their own unique perspective too, and when we refuse to … Continue reading Absolutely Unique
Expectations
Eliminate expectations, and you'll be sure to lead a blissful life. Expectations do nothing but set you up for disappointment. At the very least they blur your vision to the beauty of what's really going on around you, because you're fixated on having your expectations met instead. I read this quote that says: Expectations are … Continue reading Expectations
Do it
Most anything can be done easily when you just get to doing it. It's when you think too much about doing it, and about how you're going to do it, that it starts to get complicated. You can end up thinking yourself into a panic that it's just too difficult to do. Now, some things … Continue reading Do it
Happy Choice
Happiness doesn't come from things, other people, or circumstances. It must come from inside of yourself. Just think about how someone could be really happy under certain circumstances, like traveling overseas, and yet another person could be miserable under the very same situation. So it's not the situation, it's the perspective of the person that … Continue reading Happy Choice
Think on that
Everything in this world begins with a thought. And we get to choose what thoughts we want to pay attention to. This means that we get to choose what manifests in our life. So choose happy thoughts. Choose to be aware of the thoughts that run through your head, and if they aren't thoughts you … Continue reading Think on that
Consistency
Success doesn't require a miracle. It just takes consistency. Losing weight. Getting in shape. Paying off debt. Earning a degree. Whatever it is, it just takes showing up, and consistently putting in the work towards achieving that goal, bit by bit until it happens. You don't have to become obsessed. You don't have to be … Continue reading Consistency
Time Flies
The best thing you can do for yourself is to be where you are. Be present. It may not presently be the exact place or circumstances that you want for yourself, but you'll never really know unless you let yourself be there. Time flies when you're having fun. Actually, time flies when you're fully immersed … Continue reading Time Flies
Assumptions
The more I learn, the more I realize that I just can't know everything. This is especially true with other people's experiences. We each experience life from our own unique perspective. So it's a little silly and pretty foolish to make assumptions about what someone else is going through. You could have had very similar … Continue reading Assumptions
Faith
At some point you have to stop asking for a blessing, and start allowing it to happen. The key is figuring out when that is. My best guess is that it's as soon as you have a clear idea of what you want in your mind. Once that's clear, then you need to start allowing … Continue reading Faith
Thanksgiving
Gratitude turns what we have into enough. The best way to improve your mood is to focus on what you're grateful for. We have all suffered loss. We all have pain. It's part of the package deal with being a human. We also all enjoy the blessings that come with being human. Some of us … Continue reading Thanksgiving
Something Good
Keep noticing what's good, then you'll keep feeling abundant. And there is always something good to notice. Of course, not everything is rainbows and lollipops. There are a lot of crummy things in this world. But luckily, we get a choice on what to focus on. There's that quote that goes: Every day may not … Continue reading Something Good
No, period.
I recently heard this wonderful bit of advice when dealing with setting boundaries: "No" is a complete response. For such a simple sentence, it's quite a complex idea. Most of us learn to be apologetic and always have a reason ready if we need to say no. We are taught not to be rude, and … Continue reading No, period.
When Silence is Golden
It's ironic, but the times that I've been the most effective in conflict, have been the times that I've been extremely selective with my words, or even silent in reply. Those were the times when silence was golden. I say it's ironic because we have this instinct to want to make our case, and present … Continue reading When Silence is Golden
Attention
Focus on what you want. Take your attention away from what you don't want. I heard a very clever phrase once: energy goes where attention flows. Your creative energy is going to go towards whatever you are focused on. In other words, you will create more of whatever you are thinking about. So you best … Continue reading Attention
Days
Several times a day, every day, I stop what I'm doing, look around, and acknowledge that I'm in the middle of living a moment of my life. This acknowledgment only lasts for that brief moment each time, but it's enough. I don't know when I started doing this, but I think it came about from … Continue reading Days
Hydrate
Drink more water. After all, we're supposedly made up of about 60% of the stuff, so it just makes good sense to keep up with replenishing it and hydrating. Our blood is actually something like 90% water, and we need that stuff to be healthy and fluid for the whole bodily system to run correctly. … Continue reading Hydrate
Humanity
It feels like humans are all up in everyone else's business online, dissecting every word and action, and yet in real life they ignore each other, thoughtlessly moving through others like they're merely obstacles. Courtesy seems to be a lost art form. Technology is eroding humanity. Perhaps we should switch our focus away from online, … Continue reading Humanity
A Better Now
I used to always dream about a better future. Like, when I was a little kid, I couldn't wait until I was old enough to get my driver's licence. I thought then my life will be a dream. It was going to be so much better because then I could be independent, and drive myself … Continue reading A Better Now
Integrity
It takes dedication to consistently show up for yourself, but there's no better feeling than knowing you've acted with integrity. Integrity is acting with honesty, even when there's no one else around to know about it. Integrity is following through on the commitments you've made to yourself, simply because you believe that you're worth it. … Continue reading Integrity
Kindness
Kindness is a choice you can make every day, with every interaction. It's not always the easiest choice, but consistently making it will make your life easier overall. Choose kindness. It's the kindest choice you can make for yourself and for the people in your life.
Revenge
I feel the most peaceful when I know that I have acted with kindness, decency, and honesty. It hasn't always been a charmed life for me. I don't believe any of us ultimately get away scot-free, completely sheltered from adversity. The thing is, that whenever I've acted out in retaliation to my oppressor, when I've … Continue reading Revenge
Survivor
Some days are harder than others. Some days are downright, horrible. But it's worth remembering that you've managed to survive even your worst days. If you are reading this, then you've made it through. So, if today doesn't end up being great, just keep in mind that you've already had bad days, possibly even worse … Continue reading Survivor
The Squeeze
It's easy for anyone to act like a pleasant person when things are going smoothly. What happens when things go sideways? When life gets hard, and the pressure is on, that's when your true self comes out. Your "true self" being made up of your beliefs, the thoughts you regularly think, and the things you … Continue reading The Squeeze
Joyful
Making gratitude a way of life, is the surest way to a joyful one. Feeling gratitude helps you realize that you already have enough. Feeling gratitude brings us to that feeling we are ultimately searching for in our quest for more. We tend to think we need things, because what we want is to feel … Continue reading Joyful
Thinking up Ideas
Movement is what you need. Action will help get you to the answers you are seeking, much more effectively than just sitting around pondering the questions. Taking time to sit and think can be calming, but it doesn't bring as much clarity as actually moving into action does. When we sit around and try to … Continue reading Thinking up Ideas
Authenticity
There is a lot of talk in the self-development world about authenticity, about being our most authentic self. The thing about that, is we get to decide who we are. We get to choose what we value. But in order to be authentic, we need to get real clear on what we've chosen for ourselves, … Continue reading Authenticity
Free Will
Just simply focus on what you are for. Turn away from what you are against. Focusing on what you are for empowers you. It energizes you, inspires you, and makes the world seem hopeful. Focusing on what you are against dis-empowers. It drains you of energy and drive, and makes the world seem dark and … Continue reading Free Will
Decency
Character matters. Decency does prevail over the insidiousness of greed. Hurt people can and do hurt people. An effective tool they use to divide us is by speaking to the greed in people's hearts. A truly sinister tactic is weaponizing faith as a cover, pretending their mission is all about religion, when really it boils … Continue reading Decency
Polite
Be mindful of what you get good at doing, because you'll end up doing it for the rest of your life. This can pertain to a particular set of vocational skills, or to how good you get at putting up with toxic behavior from others. The more you let others get away with treating you … Continue reading Polite
Love
Share love, because that's what helps the world grow. Love doesn't have to be transactional. Love doesn't have to be about romance. Love doesn't control, guilt or shame. Love isn't about shallow attention. Love is that glowing feeling you get when you know that your well-being matters to another. Love is that warmth you feel … Continue reading Love
Smiles
Every day is a chance to share kindness, levity and smiles. Just imagine a world brimming with an abundance of those things. Doesn't that sound nice? And the thing about it, is that these treasures don't cost a thing to dole out. The only reason why they might be in short supply, is that not … Continue reading Smiles
Trust the Divine
I just received, hot off the press, a brand new book from Dr. Wayne Dyer. The fact that it is a new book by him, is a bit of a miracle, because he passed away peacefully in his sleep five years ago. The truth is that the incredible team at Hay House created this new … Continue reading Trust the Divine
Spectators
There's a trap in being a spectator. You're essentially powerless to the outcome, merely hoping it will turn out how you want as you watch from the sidelines. Depending on how it's going, you could either find yourself suffering with anxiety, or swaggering with arrogance. In any case, you're not really contributing to the action, … Continue reading Spectators
Heal the World
We experience the world from our own perspective. And when we feel a strong need to fix something out there, it's really a reminder that we have something to address from within ourselves. Jesus spoke of this, when he said: "Before you attempt to remove a speck from the eye of another, take the log … Continue reading Heal the World
We are Verbs
As a living, breathing, human being, a person should realize that they are much more like a verb than a noun. A verb is a word of action and movement. A verb describes progression, or more simply: progress. Human beings need to keep progressing, or they will perish. Let's switch gears here for a bit, … Continue reading We are Verbs
Believe in Yourself
Believe that you are enough. There's no other way to do it. You need to believe it. I love Wayne Dyer. I love all of his books and writings. My favorite title of his is: You'll See it When you Believe It. I love this title because it captures the whole lesson right there in … Continue reading Believe in Yourself
Happy Life
What if you simply decided that you were going to wake up happy every day? And then, what if you simply stayed that way, no matter what? Could that be the simple secret to a happy life? What would you have to lose by trying it out? Doesn't the idea of happiness sound like it's … Continue reading Happy Life
Self-Talk
Pay attention to your self-talk. I was struggling with an issue recently. Deep down, I knew I didn't want to do something, but for some reason I was having a hard time making a final decision about it. So I meditated on the subject, and asked to gain clarity on the issue. That's when a … Continue reading Self-Talk
Benefits
A couple of benefits from having a dedicated meditation practice: When you train your brain to slow down and focus on the present moment during meditation, it carries over into the rest of your day. You start to find that your awareness is almost ahead of the frenzy of life happening all around you. It's … Continue reading Benefits
Gut check
If there was only one piece of advice I could give, it would be to learn to pay attention to your own instinct regarding any issue and person; to do a gut check if you will, and then to trust that instinct explicitly. If you don't trust your own instinct, then your self-respect starts to … Continue reading Gut check
Unity
I think the biggest scam going around, is the way people can so easily be convinced to forget that we are all connected. Just think about logistics here for a second. There are over seven billion of us: living, breathing, human beings. Yet we all have to share this one - fairly small, and extremely … Continue reading Unity
Towards Love
There are times when I let the hateful noise that I've convinced myself I'm hearing from the world scare me. I feel vulnerable, desperate and unsafe. But those are times when I've merely created a dark, illusory vision of the world. It's all in my head, made up of phantoms and paper tigers. I'm actually … Continue reading Towards Love
Decide
You have to make a decision that you are going to love your life. You can't just want it. If you just want to love your life, then you're going to start to settle with being okay with it. And that leads onto a slippery slope then, of mostly being disappointed with it. The whole … Continue reading Decide
Party
I have one of those day-to-day calendars. This one has a fresh quote each day from author Jen Sincero, who wrote the bestseller: You are a Badass. Today's quote is "LOVE YOURSELF And life becomes a party." It's a great quote, and considering that today is my birthday (I actually write these posts the night … Continue reading Party
Life
They say that life is short. Depending on what you're comparing it against, that could be true. But it doesn't need to be a devastating fact. It doesn't need to be a worry. There are two things that can help make that devastating worry vanish: appreciating each and every day as they come, and having … Continue reading Life
Mistakes
If you've made a mistake, then congratulations! You've now, (hopefully) learned a valuable lesson. And so, you don't need to keep reliving it in your mind, in all its cringe-worthy detail. Living through it once should suffice. But why do we like to replay those embarrassingly low points of our lives over and over, on … Continue reading Mistakes
Energy
Trust the energy. If something doesn't feel right, don't ignore that feeling. If it feels like a struggle when interacting with someone, pay attention and find out what that strained feeling is telling you. Maybe it's a warning to avoid that person. Or perhaps it's indicating that this person is a perfect teacher for you … Continue reading Energy
Choose
Give yourself permission to choose what is best for yourself, and then choose it. It can be anything you feel is best, so long as it is never at the expense of another. This is for you. So choose what is best for you. No-one else can, or frankly will, make that choice. It's up … Continue reading Choose
Free
Today I read a piece of advice on forgiveness from Jen Sincero. She said: "If you're feeling hurt or resentful toward some A-hole you don't care about, free yourself and let it go instead of stewing on it or getting revenge... get over it. Let it go. The longer you stay attached to being vindicated, … Continue reading Free
Communication
It seems to me that in the debate over religion, those arguing against it, are relating it to an ideology, and yet those arguing in defense of it, are relating it to spirituality. So really, the debate itself might boil down to a simple failure to communicate. I mean, of course they can't see eye-to-eye … Continue reading Communication
Decide
The most elegant, simply profound advice I can think of for living a joyful life, is to decide where you want to go, and then head in that direction. The world will present many obstacles along the way, but if you are clear about where you want to go, then those obstacles can become mere … Continue reading Decide
Push or Pause
Our society is so fast-paced, that it feels like pushing through it is the smarter way to stay ahead of the game. But then you're not even participating in the game of life. You're pushing to get ahead, and missing the whole point in the process. There are so many unknown variables to life that … Continue reading Push or Pause
Friendly Suggestion
You don't have to hold an opinion about every topic that comes your way. It's just not possible to know everything there is to know about every little thing, so most of the time any opinion that you're defending is simply on shaky ground. That's a weak stance to maintain. That weakness can breed insecurity. … Continue reading Friendly Suggestion
Return to Love
A Course In Miracles says: "only love is real." And yet we tend to get caught up in the world of illusions, when we are anything but loving to each other. Forgiveness is more than just something that's nice to do. Forgiveness frees you from the illusions of anger and fear, and brings you back … Continue reading Return to Love
Valuation
Alan Watts said: "Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had." It seems that we're all taught the contrary; to view life as a series of problems to be solved. It's certainly an effective way to find success in business. Positioning yourself as the one who can solve the … Continue reading Valuation
Simply Splendid
It really can be as simple as deciding each morning that you are in a good mood. Even if you suspect that it might be a little more complicated than that, what's the harm in giving it a try? At the very least you should let go of any upset over yesterday. Don't ruin your … Continue reading Simply Splendid
Happiness
I truly believe that happiness isn't something we need to attain, because it's already within us. If anything, we need to remove the worries, conditions, and complications that we may have covering it all up. Underneath all of that junk is our happiness, innocently waiting for us to stop thinking it all needs to be … Continue reading Happiness
Defenselessness
This may sound counterintuitive, but whenever you feel the need to defend yourself, you're really just creating an enemy to defend against. There's always more to the story besides our own self-focused perspective, and we get to be in charge of our reactions. So when we find ourselves in the middle of a fight, defending … Continue reading Defenselessness
