How Do You Overcome Setbacks? Here are 4 techniques to help you coach yourself into having more perseverance Setbacks are an inevitable part of life. It’s how we manage those setbacks and successfully overcome them that often sets the optimists apart from the pessimists. I don’t believe that we are entirely either one or the other. I think we can have a primary setting; to see situations more naturally through the lens of positivity or negativity. But I also think it’s changeable from day to day and mood to mood.…
Category: midlife
How Do You Know Your Purpose
How Do You Know Your Purpose Many go through life without ever questioning or truly knowing their purpose. Maybe they are the lucky ones. The sensitive souls, like you and me, can’t help but to have days when we question it all. Times when nothing seems to make sense and our purpose seems blurry, if it even exists at all. “The marvelous thing about a question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.” – David Whyte, poet My mission today…
Clear Your House of Negative Energy with a Good Spring Cleaning
Clear Your House of Negative Energy with a Good Spring Cleaning Springtime is the perfect season for cleaning up, for clearing out and for inviting in the energy of renewal. If you’re like me, you’re feeling called to do more than simply tidy and dust this spring. It feels like high time for an intentional clearing, a marked event, a season-spurred shift, a remembering – of who we truly are. Who we are beneath and beyond all the material things we’ve stored, stashed, and collected. Decluttering and stepping into authenticity…
Words Matter | Using Words to Shift How You Feel
Have you ever stopped to think about how powerful your words are? The ones you speak, write and maybe most important of all, the ones you speak in your head. I’m making the case for you to pay closer attention to the words you use and how they are affecting you. They may be either dragging you down and draining you, or when used more thoughtfully and intentionally, be a source of support and empowerment. If you’ve followed along with my blog for a while, you know how I feel…
How to Get Yourself Out of a Bad Mood – 3 Simple Techniques
How to Get Yourself Out of a Bad Mood Even the most cheerful gal in the group occasionally finds herself in a bad mood. It’s not always easy to immediately feel gratitude or to see the upside of a situation. Often, there are a series of things that go wrong which compound and create the perfect storm for a foul mood. We can all agree that staying in a glum mood for too long becomes depressing, deflating, and unproductive. So in this post, I’m sharing with you a few ways…
How Love Gives Us Courage
Love is magical. Who would argue that? But it’s so much more than magic – love is often the source of our courage. There are many sides to the powerful emotion we call love. There’s a side of love that makes our heart flutter with excitement and passion. There’s another side of love that keeps us steadfastly caring for our family, our friends, our neighbors, our community, our globe. And then there is the side of love I write to you about today that carries us through times so painful,…