Category: empowerment
When Ignorance Is Actually Bliss
I gave up TV back in the 1990s. I was exhausted by the constant barrage of bad news and human suffering interjected by fluffy, saccharine snapshots of superficial social trends and local events. To me it is all maddening. Completely maddening to see hugely disparate reports on the status of …
Three Well-Known Secret Strategies for Winning in Life
Are you trying to make changes in your life to beat illness, get healthier, be more successful or simply find balance? Does it feel like an uphill battle with no end in sight? For most of us making changes and reaching goals can seem challenging. Uncertainty and fear can paralyze …
We ALL Need A Friend That Cares
We all have someone we count on to help us or even just listen to us when times get tough. Whether at work or in your personal life, someone has offered you their time, insights and advice. You probably appreciated their kindness and admired their strength and compassion in helping …
Art as Medicine – Being a Flower in the Garden of the Human Collective
I recently read about an interactive art installation by Yayoi Kusama called Flower Obsession. I was immediately taken by the images and description of the project. Visitors were invited to place a fake daisy anywhere they chose on a blank backdrop of an all-white apartment. Over the life of the installation more …
No Matter Where You Go, There People Are – The Humbling Beauty of Mankind
I’ve been around the block. I’ve been around several blocks. Local blocks. Not so local blocks. International blocks. The world has been available to me, as it is to you, and I’ve had a blast walking around and getting the lay of the land. In my travels, near and far, …
Gym, We Need to Break Up – It’s Not You It’s Me.
I quit my gym. Not just my gym, but all gyms. It has nothing to do with gyms. It has everything to do with me. I started working out in my late 20’s. I realized that the eternal youth I had relied upon to keep up a lifestyle of bad …
Is that a compliment I hear? You couldn’t be talking to me~
Let’s face it, we’re all vain. I think that we can all agree that we can’t help but be interested in hearing opinions about ourselves. AmIright? Inquiring minds want to know! We want to know what people think, specifically when it has to do with us. It’s not often life …