SPARKLE

DO YOU SPARKLE? CHANCES ARE, BECAUSE TRUE SPARKLE IS RARE, YOU DO AT TIMES BUT NOT ALWAYS. SPARKLE COMES FROM THOSE WHO SHINE FROM THE SOUL. DURING THE WORST OF TIMES THEY FIND IT WITHIN TO REMAIN GROUNDED, HELPING OTHERS.

WISHES DO THEY COME TRUE?

WISHES OFTEN ARE FULL OF HOPES AND DREAMS THAT ARE UNREALISTIC AND SADLY, DO NOT COME THROUGH OR HAPPEN IN OUR LIFE. THERE ARE THOSE PEOPLE IN LIFE WE KNOW WHO ARE CONTENT AND FEEL SO MUCH GRATITUDE FOR WHAT THEY ALREADY HAVE THEY COULD WISH FOR NOTHING ELSE. I THOUGHT LAST NIGHT WHILE VISITING OUR SON FOR HIS 33RD BIRTHDAYS, WHEN I SAID, “MAKE A WISH” AS HE BLEW OUT HIS CANDLES, HE SAID, “I HAVE EVERYTHING I COULD EVER WISH FOR AND MORE”, WAS SO SPECIAL.

THE MARRIAGE OF PATIENCE & OPTIMISM

“Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude.”
-Joyce Meyer

In a previous post I had talked about the importance of being patient and how what’s meant to be yours will eventually come to you even if it’s later than expected.

Read more

OPPORTUNITIES

WHEN OPPORTUNITIES PRESENT THEMSELVES, THEY AREN’T ALWAYS GLARING or OBVIOUS…Sometimes opportunities present themselves in small ways.  Perhaps you’re looking for a job and have been for a while.  You might see “pieces” of an opportunity before the full opportunity is revealed, or you might miss the opportunity presented altogether.  Often, opportunities start of as a … Read more

MINDFULNESS

I decided to write on the word, “mindfulness”, after seeing my partner, Neels post on it.  I have spent much time in my past, and much time in my future.  The first key to mindfulness is to live and think in the present.  This is a lot easier said, than done.  It requires you being … Read more

CUTTING OUT TOXICITY

“Remove yourself from people who treat you like your time doesn’t matter, like your feelings are worthless, or like your soul is replaceable.”
-s. mcnutt

I’ve written about cutting negative people out of your life or at least keeping a social distance (pun intended, ha) in some of my earlier posts. But a tweet I saw this morning made me think a little. A person’s tweet asked what if the toxic comes from a parent and/or an adult child? Should they cut them off?

Read more

Self-Affirmations

It’s the repetition of affirmations that lead to belief. And once that belief becomes a strong conviction, things begin to happen. -Claude M. Bristol Do self-affirmations really work? Does saying something over and over again make it true? Was the book The Secret accurate? Scientifically, no. If repeatedly you tell yourself you have a million … Read more