by Tonya Williams…
The alarm went off at 2:30 a.m.
It didn’t really matter, since I was awake anyway. I had tossed and turned since midnight, thinking about this very day – the day that I would run my very first marathon.
I looked over and saw my running shoes on the floor beside me. “Yep, me and you baby,” I said to my Asics, “we’re going to do it today.”
Still, I felt sick to my stomach.
The “What If’s” started to take over. Read More→
by Shelley Dudley…
Doing what we really love is absolutely necessary if we want to be fully happy. Parker Palmer, in his book Let Your Life Speak said, “Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.” Profound thought.
Richard Chang, in his book The Passion Plan: A Step-by-Step Guide to Discovering, Developing, and Living Your Passion states that “So many of us are so busy juggling our day-to-day responsibilities that we have become strangers to our passion. We may get small glimpses, little moments of enjoyment and inspiration, but rarely do we benefit from continual or prolonged periods of passion. Our lives simply do not reflect what’s in our hearts.” Sadly, most people are too busy Read More→
by Marilyn C. Ellis…
Certain skills, once mastered, enrich our lives forever. Learning to play a musical instrument and knowing how to speak a foreign language are good examples of this principle.
There is another skill, that once mastered is truly invaluable in every aspect of life and business – the important skill of Listening.
In case you haven’t noticed, when we want Read More→
By Tama J. Kieves…
I am committed to allowing myself to receive more freaking goodness than I can imagine. To start with, I am going to know that, independent of anyone else’s predictions or convictions, my life can be fantastic. I am going to stop calling negativity and limitation “realism.” I’m going to just start calling them negativity and limitation.
We have all bought into the superstition that goodness is a soap bubble about to burst. But I challenge you to think of sadness and strain as a bubble, too, a bubble that can burst as easily. It all depends on where you put your focus, what you call real, which altar you light your candles on. Read More→
Something as simple as breakfast at MaDonald’s can turn into a lesson about unconditional acceptance, love and compassion. This story by an unknown author reminds us to “love people and use things, rather than love things and use people“.
I am a mother of three (ages 14, 12, 3) and have recently completed my college degree. The last class I had to take was Sociology. My teacher was absolutely inspiring with the qualities that I wish every human being had been graced with. Our last project of the term was called “Smile.” The class was asked to go out and smile at three people and document their reactions.
I am a very friendly person and always smile at everyone and say hello anyway, so, I thought this would be a piece of cake, literally. Soon after we were assigned the project, my husband, youngest son, and I went out to McDonald’s one crisp March morning. It was just our way of sharing special playtime with our son. Read More→
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