When something happens to us that we didn’t plan, like losing a loved one or a job, we can go into a tailspin. Changes we didn’t expect can uproot the most steady of us and send us off course. We want to have control over our lives to have peace of mind. A wrench thrown […]
I’m giving myself the tsk tsk, you know, like when your mother or someone judgy looks at you, shaking their head to show you that you did something wrong. Yep, I’m giving myself that. Why? What did I do that’s so wrong? I’m sharing this because it might help someone else. I’ve carried this burden […]
I consider myself well-schooled on the subject of love because in order to love someone else, we need to love ourselves, and I do love myself. I have been studying how to be happy and have a good life for many years. I made it my life’s mission to figure out how to do just […]
These are my ideas of what I think we need to do to live a happy life. Live in the present moment. While living in the present moment, there is no past or future. You can control your thoughts, movements, and feelings in the present moment. If you can control those things, you can live […]
This idea came to me the other day. I had woken up in a grumpy mood. I had been waking up and listening to positive affirmations on YouTube, like this video. But this morning, I didn’t. Instead, I let the present reality, feeling pain from a recent shoulder surgery, get to me. I thought (I’m […]
If everything we are, do, and have in our lives is a result of our mindset, I’m a firm believer that we are only as old as we think we are. I coined the phrase yold one day when I was thinking about my age. I thought I’m not old; I’m in between young and […]
The word fear has several acronyms I’ve heard: F.E.A.R. – false evidence appearing real F.E.A.R- face everything and rise F.E.A.R – forget everything and run F.E.A.R -fantasized experiences appearing real (Jack Canfield) No matter what the acronym, the gist is the same—what we think is what we feel. And feeling fear can be paralyzing. How […]
What I mean by the cryptic title are the people in our lives we put on pedestals, like statues. I put so many people on pedestals and looked up to them like I did the statues of Jesus, Mary, and the saints in the sanctuary of the church I went to growing up. There were […]
The song “Workin’ Them Angels” by Rush inspired this blog today. It’s a fantastic song with fantastic lyrics by the late, great Neil Peart. For me, Rush is the goat of rock music. They are on another level than traditional rock n’ roll music. Here are a few lyrics from the song to see the depth […]