Stop Shoulding

“Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind.” ~ Roy T. Bennett Words hold vibrations. Choosing our words to color our world creates the tone and tenor of how we live. Certain words resonate at a high frequency, while others do the opposite. Should appears to be…

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Why Manifestation Doesn’t Work

What you think you become. What you feel you attract. What you imagine you create.  ~Buddha Are you imagining an extraordinary life? Yearning to become more? Wondering why even though you say affirmations and you think positive thoughts 24/7,  your life is not overflowing in abundance? Positive affirmations target the conscious level of our minds. However, to create a change, we must go to the subconscious. If what you are…

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#HavingItAll: The Balancing Act of Life

Can we have it all? Somewhere in our collective consciousness, many have decided that we cannot. To want more is perceived as selfish or greedy,  appearing ungrateful for what we already have. I can be this, or I can be that. I can have a career, or I can have a relationship; I can’t have both. I want to follow my dreams, but I must make a living. So it’s…

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Emotional Fitness: Finding Inner Stability

Experience is not what happens to you- it’s how you interpret what happens to you ~ Aldous Huxley One key to a successful and joyous life is emotional fitness. When our minds sway away from negative thoughts that throw us off balance and instead focus on creative and productive activities, it is a sign of inner stability. Children love to spin in circles, roll down hills, do somersaults, fall on…

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Shifting from Grievance to Gratitude

I complain; who doesn’t? Everyone I know does, some more than others. Complaining has become a habit and a norm of society. It’s how we connect and communicate. We complain about the weather, the traffic, or the service at the restaurant. We complain about politics, the cost of everything, or about each other. There is always a grievance. And we like it.  Especially when there is a group of similar…

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Being Heard is Not About Volume

Teach your children well. ~ Graham Nash Once there was a young girl who spoke in a hushed voice. Although she was soft-spoken, she was not timid nor shy. She was often told to speak up by her parents and her peers. In school, her classmates often said they could not hear her in the back of the room when she stood up to speak. One day, seeing her exasperation,…

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Reinventing Re-Invention

Don’t reinvent the wheel, just realign it. ~ Anthony J. D’Angelo Reinventing suggests compartmentalizing the entirety of our talents. Instead of looking at each new venture as something separate, a section or a small slice of who we are, we can choose to see it as a continuation and expansion of our being. Every new endeavor is a compilation of our skills. We bring to the table the wisdom and…

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How Do We Navigate Our Devices and Not Lose Out on Real Life

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. ~Steve Jobs Are our digital devices removing us from reality? Are human beings losing the ability to connect? Digital overload occurs when we have difficulty managing the time we spend staring at screens and processing the volume of information we are exposed to. It has been identified in children and teens. Their addiction to devices is real and troubling.…

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Finding your Ikigai 生き甲斐 Why I Wake up in the Morning

“It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.” – Winston S. Churchill Are you living your most extraordinary life? Are you willing to believe that something else is possible? Do you understand you have a choice in creating the life you have always wanted? These questions inspired me to write The Let Go. The Japanese believe in having deep satisfaction and meaning in their lives;…

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