Who are you living your life for? Are you creating a purposeful and thoughtful life, or more often than not stumbling through your life, reacting to people and situations? The best way I know how to live my life is to live it for me. To be thoughtful and intentional in my choices, and loving and grateful in my attitude. … Read More
How To Get Motivated
Self motivation is a powerful practice of happy and successful people. No matter what your goal, motivating yourself to progress is the key to living a satisfying and purposeful life. My goal is, simply, to live my best life! To be healthy, happy, and love life. Of course doing so is easier said than done. To live a great life … Read More
Making the Best of a New Boss
If there’s one constant in business it’s the constant of change. Many times employees bear the brunt of this change. Organizations restructure departments and managers come and go. Getting a new boss is one of the most stressful changes an employee will experience. I speak from experience on this topic. In the past two and a half years at the … Read More
25 Ways to Relax and Recharge in 90 Minutes or Less
The benefits of living a balanced life include lower stress, improved health, increased focus and concentration, inspired creativity, and the ability to manage life’s ups and downs with dignity and grace. Sounds great, doesn’t it? But still many of us, myself included, struggle to balance life and take good care of ourselves. We may think of the weekend as our … Read More
Redefine Success!
If there’s one thing main idea this blog is about, it’s making the most of this moment, this day. I’m here to tell you making the best of each day a great way to live. Life isn’t perfect, of course, because there’s no such thing as perfect. I have my ups and downs, my good days and less good days- … Read More
Your Coworkers Are Not As Annoying As You Think They Are
Annoying coworkers- everything they do is irritating. Annoying coworkers can be recognized by their laziness, over-sharing, obnoxious habits, poor communication, lack of hygiene- you name it! I’ve been there, you’ve been there, we’ve all been there. What if you annoying coworkers aren’t really all that annoying? Not true, you may insist as you prepare a list of your coworkers annoying … Read More
Come on, get happy: A Happiness Challenge
Are you as happy as you could be? Are you as happy as you want to be? I’m here to spark a little extra happiness in your life every day for the next 30 days. Choosing to be Happy I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, happiness is an inside job. Sometimes happiness comes easy and sometimes not … Read More
Making Peace With Your Inner Critic
Do you believe you are capable? Do you feel confident? Are you comfortable making mistakes? What message do you tell yourself about you? A healthy, objective inner critic can help you excel in life and an unhealthy, harsh inner critic can hold you back. Many of us have an unreasonable and hateful inner critic that lives in our heads that … Read More
How To Shake Off a Bad Day
Nothing seems to go quite right. Everyone and everything feels a bit off. Feelings of frustration, resentment, and discomfort rise to the surface. In the middle of it, it’s hard to shake off a bad day. Earlier this week I had a bad day. It felt unusual and strange as it’s been some time since I had a bad day. … Read More
18 Ways to Have Fun at Work (And Life!)
We think of work as, well, work. No doubt you hear the weekly Monday lament, but work doesn’t have to be all bad, in fact it doesn’t need to be bad at all! Having fun at work has many benefits, including minimizing boredom and fatigue, relieving tension and stress, improving morale, inspiring innovation and creativity, reducing conflict, and improving mental … Read More