It is truly hard to believe that 2020 is soon coming to an end. I think that we can all agree that this year has been unlike any other that we have experienced. I’ve told this story a few times but I continue to tell it because it is a perfect example of the lack of control that we have when it comes to outside forces. Two weeks before the pandemic struck in the United States, I had one of…
Hello there readers. I hope that you are feeling and doing well ❤ Today I want to talk about the Lotus flower and why we can all learn something from it (especially with what is going on in the world right now). The lotus is a beautiful flower that originates in Asia. The thing that makes this flower so special is the way that it grows. “The Lotus plant is an aquatic perennial, native to southern Asia and Australia and…
A new year – a new decade. A plethora of opportunities laid before us – all for the taking if we so choose. Happy New Year! Welcome to 2020! I hope that you had a wonderful New Year’s Eve/New Year’s Day celebration! Kevin and I started a new tradition of doing our end of the year burning ritual that I talked about in my last post. I must say – it felt good. We set our intentions for 2020 and wrote…
When I was in my 2nd year of high school, one of my media shop teachers did an activity where we all sat at a round table and he went one by one and told us what he perceived to be our “fatal flaw”. In my life, there have been a handful of memories that really stand out — defining moments if you will — and this particular memory is one of them. My fatal flaw was: I’m afraid to speak…
Life has been…different lately. I almost feel like I’m on an episode of Big Brother where the tagline is “Expect the unexpected!”. And to that I would say – no thanks, I prefer my predictability! However life always has a way of shaking things up, right? You’ve got the seasons, the long amounts of time in life where things are a certain way – good or bad, easy or tough, then you have the waves. The waves being, shorter…
Happy Wednesday! Today I want to talk about something that has been on my mind lately and that is, being yourself. The true, authentic, you, and doing so without fear. When I first started this blog I really struggled with what I wanted to name it. This is always the case with online accounts that are going to essentially represent you in a way, isn’t it? I brainstormed for literally over a week until I finally realized, I’m never…
Gratitude: the quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness. Contentment: a state of happiness and satisfaction. Earlier this year when thinking about what I wanted my New Year’s Resolutions to be, I really wanted to focus on contentment. I think at some point I fell to the wayside with that but I’m finding my way back there now. I think contentment and gratitude really go hand in hand. Sometimes you have to stop and…
Happy new year! Let me start off by saying that I hope you all have a wonderful, healthy, happy and positive 2019. In reality, we can choose to wake up any morning of the year and make a new goal and start the process of a new change but there is something about the fresh slate of a new calendar year that can really strike that inspiration. For me this year I really would like to focus on broad goals….