"Hope is the positive expectation of something great happening... and soon. "

---Jan McDonald

It has been said, “Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air...but only for one second w...

"The value of an idea lies in the using of it."

--Thomas Edison

We can't take an action without thinking about it or having the idea first. That's a great thing when we are tempted to do something that will negatively impact others  or ourselves. W...

“To be intentional means working with purpose to make every action count.” 

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“On the other side of complicated is the wonderful, wide-open world of effective collaboration and a workplace you love.”

--Ryan Leak 

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"When you let go, you create space for something better.”

--Anonymous

I love fall. It's one of the most beautiful ...

"Tomorrow is never promised, so love and appreciate the people who are in your life."

--Me

Dennis and I just came back from a wonderful, refreshing vacation at the Oregon Coast. It was the first vacation that we took in over a year.  We didn't have...

“What we focus on expands."

-- Unknown

 
Life is filled with both good and bad moments. Some of it we can control, and some of it we can’t. But here’s the game-changer: the way we think about those moments makes all the difference.

 Life happens for ...

"All of us do not have equal talent. Yet, all of us have an equal opportunity to develop our talents."

 --Ratan Tata

I love spending time with my adult kids. Both my son and my daughter have this "nothing is impossible attitude." If I am wondering ...

"In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself." 

Seneca
 

Last week I hosted a spiritual retreat called Sacred Stillness. The focus was simple but powerful — spending more quiet time with God. As I prepared for it, I discovered...

“If you think you're smarter than the previous generation, consider this:  Fifty years ago, the owner's manual of a car showed you how to adjust the valves. Today, it warns you not to drink the contents of the battery."

--Derric Johnson

Ever feel l...

“Life is either an adventure or nothing at all."

--Helen Keller

That is how I've been trying to approach unknowns since the pandemic. 

I used to spend a huge amount of time struggling with control issues. It makes me smile to even write this, becaus...

“Comparison is the thief of joy."

― Theodore Roosevelt

At Sacred Stillness, the women's retreat that I hosted last Friday, one of the topics that came up was comparison. One of the journal prompts for our time of solitude was "who or what do I comp...

"Until we deal with our "head trash" nothing is going to change."

--Jan McDonald

Can you believe it's almost August? What happened to this year? It's almost the last quarter of 2025 and how are we doing with our goal achievement? I've been reflecti...

 “You can’t always control what goes on outside, but you can always control what goes on inside.” 

 --Wayne Dyer

Can you tell what I've been speaking on lately? Anxiety is a major concern, not only is the workplace, but at home. Here's a part of th...

"Calmness is power. Say to your heart, "Peace be still."

--James Allen

What I'm going to share with you made no sense to me when I first heard it. When I used it in the height of rush hour traffic when I wasn't sure of my destination--it worked!...

"Emotions are neither good nor bad, it's our thinking that makes them so."

--my humble opinion

The Latin derivative for the word emotion, "emotere,' literally means energy in motion. Emotions are just energy moving through the body. They are not go...