"Tomorrow is never promised, so love and appreciate the people who are in your life."

--Me

Dennis and I just came back from a wonderful, refreshing vacation at the Oregon Coast. It was the first vacation that we took in over a year.  We didn't have...

“What we focus on expands."

-- Unknown

 
Life is filled with both good and bad moments. Some of it we can control, and some of it we can’t. But here’s the game-changer: the way we think about those moments makes all the difference.

 Life happens for ...

"All of us do not have equal talent. Yet, all of us have an equal opportunity to develop our talents."

 --Ratan Tata

I love spending time with my adult kids. Both my son and my daughter have this "nothing is impossible attitude." If I am wondering ...

"In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself." 

Seneca
 

Last week I hosted a spiritual retreat called Sacred Stillness. The focus was simple but powerful — spending more quiet time with God. As I prepared for it, I discovered...

“If you think you're smarter than the previous generation, consider this:  Fifty years ago, the owner's manual of a car showed you how to adjust the valves. Today, it warns you not to drink the contents of the battery."

--Derric Johnson

Ever feel l...

“Life is either an adventure or nothing at all."

--Helen Keller

That is how I've been trying to approach unknowns since the pandemic. 

I used to spend a huge amount of time struggling with control issues. It makes me smile to even write this, becaus...

“Comparison is the thief of joy."

― Theodore Roosevelt

At Sacred Stillness, the women's retreat that I hosted last Friday, one of the topics that came up was comparison. One of the journal prompts for our time of solitude was "who or what do I comp...

"Until we deal with our "head trash" nothing is going to change."

--Jan McDonald

Can you believe it's almost August? What happened to this year? It's almost the last quarter of 2025 and how are we doing with our goal achievement? I've been reflecti...

 “You can’t always control what goes on outside, but you can always control what goes on inside.” 

 --Wayne Dyer

Can you tell what I've been speaking on lately? Anxiety is a major concern, not only is the workplace, but at home. Here's a part of th...

"Calmness is power. Say to your heart, "Peace be still."

--James Allen

What I'm going to share with you made no sense to me when I first heard it. When I used it in the height of rush hour traffic when I wasn't sure of my destination--it worked!...

"Emotions are neither good nor bad, it's our thinking that makes them so."

--my humble opinion

The Latin derivative for the word emotion, "emotere,' literally means energy in motion. Emotions are just energy moving through the body. They are not go...

"No one has a problem with the first mile of a journey. Even an infant could do fine for a while. But it isn't the start that matters. It's the finish line." 

--Julien Smith

What? It's June already?  What happened to the whole first half of the yea...

"Wave slope surfing has taught me to soar in the midst of trying circumstances."

--Jan McDonald

Dennis has been challenged with a health issue and hasn't worked since Thanksgiving. The docs (and there were many of them) have done every test and ...

If you want something in life that you've never had, you're going to have to do something you've never done."

--JD Houston

How many times have you been asked to do something you've never done before? I know that stepping out of our comfort zone ...

"Honor your commitments with integrity.”

― Les Brown

In The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork, John Maxwell writes about the Law of Countability.  This law is all about being able to count on each other. One of the things that I love about teaching ...

"Watch what you tell yourself, you're likely to believe it."

—Russ Kyle

Technology can bring out the worst in me. On Friday morning, I had a couple of challenges that highjacked my positive attitude. The Head Trash began. "This shouldn't be this ha...