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

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

How To Believe In Yourself (Even If No One Else Believes In You)

Do you believe in you? Recently Farouk wrote an excellent gust post: 4 Beliefs of Successful (and Happy) People. In this post Farouk shared one belief that really stuck with me: successful people believe in themselves. This lead me to thinking about how to believe in yourself; especially if no one else believes in you. Recently, an influential person in … Read More

How To Deal With Criticism

Receiving negative feedback can derail even the most positive person’s day. I know because I consider myself a positive individual and I was recently knocked out by unnecessarily harsh criticism. Like a fighter down for the count, I was so stunned I was initially unable to move forward. I spent several days turning the words over and over in my … Read More

37 Great Life Lessons in 37 Years

Loving life is a practice of living with joy, mindfulness, and wisdom every day. Living a great life is all about choices, and in 37 years of life, I’ve learned to make choices that embrace happiness. Yes, today is my birthday, and I invite you to join me in celebrating the greatest life lessons I’ve learned in 37 years. 37 … Read More

It’s okay to say no!

Growing up I was taught to be agreeable and that “no” is a bad word. The truth is, all I got out of being overly agreeable and avoiding saying “no” was unhappiness and stress. Since I did not want a life of unhappiness and stress, I learned to stand up for myself, set and follow through on appropriate boundaries, and … Read More

How To Manage Change

Stability is a concept of the past. Very few of us have true job security or business security, and changes in technology and business force us to adapt to change if we want to enjoy our best life and career success. Three years ago I started looking for work for the first time in over 5 years in a completely … Read More

How to make the best of your mistakes

As a recovered perfectionist, I used to hate making mistakes. I believed mistakes were proof of my shortcomings. I’m grateful I no longer fear making mistakes, I even embrace them! The truth is we all make mistakes, big and small. Most of the time mistakes can’t actually be avoided because at the time they are made, we lacked the insight … Read More

Hello my name is confidence!

Self-esteem doesn’t come from what you look and feel like on the outside, it comes from within. Your core beliefs determine your self-worth. You can choose and create a new belief about you- you are great!