Making Change Requires Action
I tend to be a creature of habit. While I don’t oppose some change, it is not necessarily something I’m inclined to embrace enthusiastically. However, without change, we would never see the results of what we wish to accomplish. Making change requires taking action in order to the get...
Reflecting on Gratitude
It’s Thanksgiving week! When recalling the extremes we’ve witnessed this year, such as natural disasters, civil unrest, fear-driven hysteria, and restrictions that threaten our constitutional rights (oh, and let’s not forget the great toilet paper “shortages” of 2020), it can be difficult to feel grateful. But if we take...
Quelling the Chaos
I internalize things, a lot of things: stress, frustrations, worries, perceptions of people or events that occur. I’ll over think a situation, trying to figure out every little detail, oftentimes before the event or potential circumstance even occurs. While a certain amount of planning and forethought is necessary, too...
Releasing Expectations
Have you ever made a plan, only to have it all go seemingly awry? That was me this past Tuesday. I got off work a little earlier than usual and had plans to put the finishing touches on last week’s blog post, make dinner, and get to bed at...
Finding Beauty after the Storm
While out grocery shopping recently, I got caught in one of the many afternoon thunderstorms we’ve been having lately. I’m talking torrential downpour and flash flooding type of thunderstorm. Running through the rain to get my car so I could park by the curb to load my groceries, I...