Beliefs
I Want More Peace And Less Overwhelm
Overwhelm feels like the weariness you experience after treading water for hours on end. As your strength fades, it’s all you can do to keep your head above water and catch your breath. It feels like you are drowning! I bet you have had that feeling, because I hear about how overwhelmed people are nearly…
Read MoreHow Do You Measure Your Day?
You have a way of measuring your day although you might not know what it is. Perhaps you measure your day by how… Much you were able to accomplish or how productive you were? Enjoyable or fun your day was? Many priorities you were able to check off? Lovely your attitude was? You felt about…
Read MoreAre You Doing Life Backwards?
Imagine going backwards everywhere you went – walking backwards; driving backwards. It would be a challenge! At first it might feel quite awkward, but over time and with enough practice you might eventually excel at navigating backwards all the time. It might even feel natural. And yet you were not designed to do life that…
Read MoreThe Brilliant Beauty In Bad Days
Bad days often leave you feeling sad, discouraged, and hopeless. You may even feel like you want to quit! What makes for a day bad for you? It’s different for everyone. A day might go south after a series of interruptions, getting stuck with a project and not making the progress you were counting on,…
Read MoreLiving Your Life Fenced In Or Free?
Are you living free and fearlessly? Or are you held hostage by your own invisible fences that are keeping your life small? Fences & Foxes Fences are few in my neighborhood. In fact, solid fences are a no-no according to our Homeowner Association rules, which is why invisible fences are so popular. Yet, despite of…
Read MoreEnjoy More Success with These Powerful Perspectives
Perspectives are powerful! While quietly operating in the background, they play a major role in how you experience and respond to the world! What is Perspective? Perspective is the lens with which you view everything and it influences the meaning you make. It’s your way of thinking about and understanding a topic like success, life,…
Read MorePacing Your Life Like A Pro!
Pacing makes all the difference! One of appealing aspects of living in Chattanooga is all the amazing hiking options. Recently my husband shared one of his favorite hikes with me that is mere miles from our home. It was a perfect day for hiking – happy warm like spring is here in the south rather…
Read MoreOh, What A Difference Hope Makes!
Hope is fragile. When I have it, hope is wildly powerful and compelling. Without hope, despair and discouragement settle in. Because I’m human, my hope swells and it shrinks. It’s rarely stagnant. Ordinarily I’m a pretty hopeful gal, but recently, my hope took a hit. It was dark and ugly – a very unhappy moment.…
Read MoreWhy You Bite Off More Than You Can Chew & What to Do!
Over-committed? Do you find yourself taking on too much – biting off more than you can chew? Me too! That was my norm: always taking on more and more. It left me feeling stressed, depleted, and resentful. Remember the game Chubby Bunny where you keep putting more and more marshmallows into your mouth until you…
Read MoreThe Truth About Freedom and Living Free
Where in your life do you need freedom? Freedom is something I’d taken for granted until the summer of 1982 when I entered Moscow, Russia by train. Communist Russia or the USSR. Before being allowed to exit the train, everything was searched. Everything! My magazines, summer reads, and all other random hints of western life…
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