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In Pursuit of Fulfillment
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Everyone desires fulfillment in their lives, and I'm no exception. As a writer, I'm choosing to use the most powerful tool at my disposal to help me achieve this goal. Whatever your goals, I hope that this blog can inspire you in some way to work tow
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If It Makes You Happy...Do It Right NOW!
"It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy." ~Lucille BallHappiness is elusive for many people. Whether it's due to dealing with every day stresses or something more significant, most of us could find something to frown abou...
Shoulders Back, Show the Rack
You may have heard of Lifetime's new hit show, Drop Dead Diva. While not everyone I know thinks the show is great, I happen to love it.In case you don't know, the premise of the show is that a hot, young, blond model and a brilliant, equally hot (alt...
Writing Your Own Story: Filling Your Vessel
In the first installment of the Writing Your Own Story series, we discussed identifying and releasing negative self perceptions. And now, after a brief detour, we're going to take the next step.Once you have released the negative perceptions about yo...
Writing Your Own Story: Taking Action
A certain spiritual leader (one I happen to respect very much) called me yesterday with some concerns over the first post in the Writing Your Own Story series. It seems that she felt it was important to note that one cannot make real life changes wit...
Writing Your Own Story: Discovering and Releasing Negative Self Perceptions
Travel deep inside yourself without the baggage of conditioning. Be an explorer, have patience and eventually your true nature will surface. You will return from your journey with fresh skin and you will approach each day with a wonderful sense of wo...
I will sell 20 million records!
Sometime last week, I caught a bit of an interview with one of Michael Jackson's brothers. He was discussing Michael's dedication to his music and career, and shook his head sadly as he said that MJ had "I will sell twenty million records" written on...
Finding Joy in the Success of Others
We all know someone who seems to have "it all" and many of us can relate to feeling a little jealous of or even angry at Miss or Mr. Perfect. Maybe she's got the career you've always wanted or is Supermom, ruler of the PTA. Or perhaps he's got the bo...
Claim Your Personal Power: Don't Let the Bastards Get You Down
As you journey toward personal fulfillment, embracing life and your passions, sometimes friends and family can create speed bumps (or potholes) on your path.Maybe they're jealous or threatened by your new-found happiness, or maybe they just don't und...
The Reluctant Leader: A Lesson in Perspective
A woman I know is an artist. She has always, always known that she wanted to be an artist and has been passionate about it since she could hold a paintbrush. She paints beautiful abstract portraits which are highly sought after.When she got her first...
It's 10:00 PM, do you know where your gratitude is?
I know I've talked about gratitude before--on a number of occasions actually--but I'm here to talk about it again. It's worth repeating, remembering, refreshing.The thing is, intentional gratitude makes such a signficant difference in one's life--but...
Body, Beautiful: You are what you think
"Most people define themselves by this finite body, but you're not a finite body... I mean even under a microscope you're an energy field. What we know about energy is this... You go to a quantum physicist and you say "What creates the world?" And he...
Judge Me, Judge Me Not
How likely are you to judge someone who looks differently than you? What about someone who has a different religion, belief system, morals, values?My knee-jerk response to that question is "oh, I never judge...I'm one of the most open-minded people I...
Living in this moment, here with you...
The Secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, nor to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.- BuddhaHow often do you find yourself living in the past? Wonder...
Dealing with Extreme Anxiety
As we walk together on this pursuit of fulfillment, we become increasingly aware of the effect our emotions can have on our success.Noticing and acknowledging our emotions is an important step in creating personal change in our lives. Every one of us...
Single Girls: This One's for You
Those of us who are happily married often forget how nasty the dating world can actually get.Women have to deal with jerks, mama's boys and arrogant bastards. Some find that they deal with lying and cheating men over and over again.Perpetually single...
Creating Personal Change: Open Your Mind
In the last installment of Creating Personal Change, we talked about figuring out what we REALLY want.As you continue on your quest to create personal change in your life, the next step is to start removing negative influences from your mind.One of t...
Creating Personal Change: First Things First
George Bernard Shaw once said, "People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can...
The LOLCats Experiment: Let's Test the Theory
I know you've been on the edge of your seat since I announced the LOLCats Experiment a couple of days ago, dying to know what's happening, am I right?(Just let me live in my little fantasy world where everyone hangs off my every keystroke for a minut...
The LOLCats Experiment: LOL Often and Prosper
When my husband told me about LOLcats, I smiled and nodded and pretended I'd read them. I didn't at first, because it didn't sound like anything I'd enjoy. I mean...it's photos of cats (and other animals) that have funny (and misspelled) captions on ...
Golf balls, marbles, sand, and coffee?
Every now and then, someone forwards me this email about life and how it relates to a jar. Even though I often skim email forwards, especially those of a political or otherwise controversial nature, I always happen to read this one.I think that it's ...
What Really Matters?
My oldest son's first Christmas was a tough one. We went out of town to celebrate with family, and someone broke into our home while we were gone. They took everything of any value and many things that were sentimentally important and irreplaceable.H...
Put Yourself Back On Your Priority List
For the past couple of weeks, I've felt a bit out of sorts. I have struggled to get back "on track" with my regular writing schedule, and have been skipping workouts left and right. It's NOT been working well for me.Essentially, the holiday madness h...
Finding Your Focus...After the Holidays
I gotta tell you, I love the holidays. I really do. It's so much fun to see the kids opening their gifts, and I love spending time with the extended families and catching up with everyone.All that fun (and gift wrapping...and travel...and cooking...e...
All We Need Is Love
So, today while the boys were at school and the hubs was at work, I had a revelation. It happened while I was trying to make lunch for Sophie (my one year old).She danced around my feet, giggling and playing, insisting that I pick her up. Each time...
Let Me Be the Voice in Your Head Today :)
As I pursue my own fulfillment, I find that it's important to maintain balance. For example, most of you are aware that I am a freelance writer. I choose to do this because I have had a lifelong love affair with words. Writing has always, always been...
The Silverware Drawer
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Most of you are aware of my whole "change your perspective, change your life" theory. I'm also big on gratitude. I'll tell you what, it's working for me.So here's the deal. Last night, I had a light bulb mo...
Give Yourself a Break During the Holidays!
So, it's the holiday season. Are you going crazy yet? Have you shopped till you dropped and still have people left to buy for? I know your pain, my friend, I know your pain.But here's the good news: I've got some suggestions for you to help lower you...
Little Bits of Joy
Sometimes when I pick up my one year old daughter, Sophie, she hugs me and pats me on the shoulder. It makes me feel like The Most Amazing and Important Person in the World, seriously.Finding joy in our every day lives is so important to our personal...
Give Yourself a Break
As the rest of the world woke up at four am to go Black Friday shopping, I decided to skip it. I have never enjoyed it--and in fact, it causes me a significant amount of anxiety. I am not a fan of big angry crowds, and the year I took my middle child...
Experiencing History
Last night, as history unfolded in front of my eyes, I stood in front of the television, rocking my daughter, Sophie. My eleven year old son Cameron had given up on waiting for the results and went to bed, asking me to let him know in the morning who...
