Do You Feel the Push to Repair Even a Small Bit of the World?

If you want to affect change in the world, start changing yourself.

For the last three months I worked with 12 aspiring authors who wanted to write and publish books that would inspire readers to create change in their lives, in organizations or in the world. All of them felt it was their soul purpose to “author change.” In the publishing industry, we definitely feel books can [...]

Think Good Thoughts, Do Good Deeds, Create Good Things

When we reach for God, God reaches down to us.

We are often told to watch our thoughts or to change our thoughts so we can create what we want in life. I’ve often written here on this blog that I do, indeed, believe our thoughts are creative. I’ve also said that we can’t just think our way to manifesting what we want. Yes, occasionally, [...]

9-11: The Need and Ability to be Heard

Terrorists need to be heard, but there are better ways to get noticed.

September 11 came and went fairly quietly–at least at my home. Yet, I was aware of what day it was and what the date commemorated. For others, I know it was noisy–in their hearts and heads. And, of course, there were memorial services. I often think about the souls that left this earth on 9-11, [...]

Can You Really Let Go?

Are you able to let go?

“Can you really let go?” I asked myself this question today when I left my son a long message on Facebook telling him I was basically “cutting the apron strings” and letting him handle his own stuff. To a great extent, I have not choice but to let go; he’s in Germany. I can’t  help [...]

Why Do We Love to Watch the Olympics?

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Whether we are sports fanatics or not, most of us love to watch the Olympics. We may have our favorite sports, but we may find ourselves watching sports we don’t find quite so interesting as well. For example, I love gymnastics, dressage, tennis and soccer during the summer Olympics as well as volleyball. Yet,I watch [...]

What Does Freedom Mean To You?

Sometimes freedom is just a state of mind.

Freedom. For some, it means not being incarcerated. For some it means not being enslaved. For others, it means: getting divorced quitting a  job graduating from high school or college leaving home paying off debts But once you’ve done those things, do you really experience more freedom–and for how long? Can you be free while [...]

Getting Started is the Hard Part

It gets easier once you've started an activity, so just start.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how hard it can feel to begin something new, like the exercise program I keep saying I will take on or the daily schedule I will keep to. Here’s the thing: Complaining about it only makes it worse. And getting started is the hard part. After you start, [...]

How Do You Know When It’s the End?

Not that long ago I went to see the movie, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. I have to admit, I’d seen the trailer (below) and was charmed by it in many ways but in particular by a line said by one of the main characters, Sonny, who, as it turns out says this several times [...]

Will You Commit to Living Up to Your Soul’s Potential?

Are you living up to your potential or fulfilling your purpose?

I live a lot of my days with a nagging feeling that there’s something I should be doing that I’m not doing. I don’t mean “should” in that negative sense, like my mother told me to do something and I feel like I should to please her but I don’t want to or society thinks [...]

Letting Our Children Fly

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I’ve spent the past few weeks in a whirlwind and turmoil of activities and issues with my kids–primarily with one of them. I’ve done all the things a parent should and can do, sometimes receiving gratitude and love in return and sometimes receiving anger and requests to simply bud out totally. Parenting is a tough [...]