We spend our lives chasing goals like they are butterflies. To catch one is definitely satisfying, but the gratification is as fleeting as a flutter of wings. Almost the second that a goal is within our grasp, our eyes are distracted by another flitting by. Why don’t...
Today is your birthday. Perhaps not the anniversary of your birth, but a day when you are given the gift of another 24 hours to savor life. You wake up and slowly become aware of the pillow beneath your head, the quality of light streaming into the window, the...
Christmas is much like Thanksgiving in that, while we celebrate something simple—gratitude and love—we go about it with such hell-bent enthusiasm that it is ultimately too complicated to be felt. It is like putting on a lavish Broadway production at an intersection...
There is nothing that fosters a joyous life more quickly and effectively than gratitude. Gratitude takes us from a state of perceived deprivation to an awareness of our fulfillment. Iyanla Vanzant said, “We think we have to do something to be grateful or something has...
In the heady pace of modern living, sometimes it is difficult to keep a firm hold on those relationships that give heart and meaning to our lives. It seems like we glance away for a split second and suddenly those relationships have fallen an implausible distance...
Proper posture is not only a way to alleviate back pain; it is an eloquent communication revealing how we feel about ourselves and the world and may predict how we will feel in the future. It is common knowledge that our thoughts govern our emotions which then...
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