State of the Union: Where are YOU now?
How can I best support you? Click here to let me know.(Reply before midnight CT June 12 to enter Amazon Gift Card drawing) I confess… trying to wrap my head around all the civil unrest, protests, police brutality, and general mayhem over the past couple weeks has sent...
Mindfulness – The Key to Mastering Your Mind and Your Life
Image by PublicDomainArchive from Pixabay “Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn’t more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to...
Why Optimism is Important – Especially Now
Joel at pixabay You may not like how things are going in the world right now. Or how your life is being affected by it all the shelter-in-place mandates and restrictions. These pandemic circumstances have required us to adapt and/or change our normal routines. And...
How to Practice Acceptance When What-Is is NOT What You Want
Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it. - Michael J. Fox Photo by Graham Johnson on Unsplash We've all heard that acceptance is crucial to living a happy,...
The Ultimate Surrender: an Irreverent Look at the symbolism of Good Friday
Photo by Nathan Dumlap on Unsplash Face it. The world-as-we-knew-it has changed. The goals, plans, priorities, or motivations you started with this year are probably much different than what they are right now. I know mine are. Even comparing "what-was" the first of...
Music – the Universal Language
Sharing something a little different today. I wrote the songs recorded in this new YouTube video several decades ago. They are here, first time sung all together, by Shane Kennedy and Christopher Joel Carter at Trinity United Methodist Church. (I was organist there in...
4 Tips to Calm the Anxious Mind
It's impossible to feel anxious and calm at the same time. So, when your anxious mind tries to take over, take charge with these four tips. www.inkmedia.eu/Flickr.com With the new coronavirus spreading through the world, everyone is feeling a heightened sense of...
Coronavirus: Putting the Pieces Together
Frankly, there’s so much information circulating about the Coronavirus, it’s hard to know what to share. The past few days I’ve read article after article, highlighted dozens of printed out pages, scribbled numerous notes in the margins, and brainstormed multiple...
The Biggest Block to Your Happiness. (It’s not what you think)
Contrary to the billion-dollar positive thinking industry - and our constitutional "unalienable right" to pursue happiness, attaining happiness as a final, end goal is unrealistic. Not only can it set us up for disappointment, it's just not how life really works....
Are You Happy? Really?
"Listen with your heart… for it houses the secret whispers of your Soul." What is happiness anyway? If you consult a dictionary, you’ll get answers such as, “a feeling of pleasure, contentment, or joy,” “a state of well-being.” PositivePsychology.com says it’s a...