Peaceful Healing Feeling

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
~ Henry David Thoreau ~

It’s been my experience change is indeed possible.  However, it cannot happen in the abstract.  Clarity, focus, and time are super important components.

Ten years ago, instead of relying on resolutions to launch my year (which never seem to last), I started choosing just one word to be my North Star.  It becomes my personal and simple mission statement for the year.  It is a fixed destination I can depend on as the world is in chaos around me. Continue reading “Word of the Year 2020: Leisure”

If you’re proactive, you don’t have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
~ Stephen Covey ~

In his book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey stresses the importance of being proactive. 

Being proactive means that you take conscious control over your life. You set goals and work to achieve them.  Instead of reacting to events and waiting for things to happen, proactive people create their own events and opportunities.

Most people live their lives reacting to situations as they occur. To be honest, reacting to certain events can be all well and good.  However, it can become a problem when that is the primary way a person decides to act. Instinctively reacting to stimulation does not lead to good decision making. Continue reading “Get Proactive”

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.
~ Robert Collier ~

Most of us have areas of our lives we’d like to improve.  It could be our career, relationship, fitness, or maybe an overhaul on our mental or emotional state.

Although tackling this might sound like a huge undertaking, it all starts with taking that first step.

Does that sound too daunting to even consider?

I get like that sometimes.  So full of overwhelm, I don’t even know what the first step is! Continue reading “Take the First Step”