Positive energy, make sure it is always in your toolbox.

Life can be hard. I spend most of my time these days happy and contented with life. I post about pointing positive, keeping your mind in a good space. I am genuinely happy to see transformations in people that have come over to looking at the good aspects of their lives, handling the dark and/or

First chain on the link, who, when, where?

“Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.” Charles Dickens We all have people who have been in our lives forever or so

Time and Attention, the greatest of gifts

After combing through the morning news, seeing how angry it makes me most days, I turn inwards and try my best to re focus on the light…

New season, new outlook.

As the weather starts to cool and the leaves begin to change their colour, so do we as humans prepare for a new season. Gone is another summer of long days, plenty of light. Some of us are much happier once the heat and humidity is at bay. I am surrounded by sweater lovers. I

Spring ahead into my timezone!

From late fall until early spring, my internal clock is off. I live in one timezone, my internal clock. I spend six months waking far too early, lying in bed for as long as I can before I start to get way too restless. Once the brain is awake, It races until late afternoon, full

Gratitude

Sometime over the past year I questioned where I had been, where I was going, what did I want next. As time speeds by there are so many decisions to make, familywise, jobwise, lifewise. I somehow came across a group Attitude of Gratitude and started to follow along. Random people would post small or big

What is the one thing you would not give up about yourself ?

This is a question we were asked to answer at a WW meeting this past week. Their were many different one word answers to choose from. I could not pick just one. But just by simply doing the exercise, it made me aware of just how much I have grown as a person in the

Time to Unplug

You just know it. It often comes after suffering a traumatic experience, but not always. Sometimes it comes on slowly. Sometimes it is triggered from something so deeply buried that you have spent your life combating in private. But one thing is certain. You feel it coming, try to dismiss it, try to explain it

I’ll take GRATITUDE over sadness, any day of the week.

Gratitude is the key to combatting sadness. This is something I heard someone say this past week. How true it is. Having gratitude for our blessings keeps us positively focused. To give you two examples of this, I first recall a conversation I had this past year with a woman who had been left paralyzed