You make hundreds of small decisions all day, every day. What to wear, what to eat, should I buy this, where will I go for lunch, who should I go for a walk with or should I just park it on the couch, who will I love, I’ll answer this call and not answer this…
Tag: Mindset
One of my favorite books of all time
Has there ever been a book that has made a huge impact in your life? First, let me say that there have been a few books that have impacted me and my relationships (How to Win Friends and Influence People, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The Secret, Personality Plus to name a few), but…
How Fortunate Am I?
Fortunate favored by or involving good luck or fortune; lucky. Synonyms: lucky, favored, blessed, charmed auspicious or favorable. Synonyms: favorable, advantageous, providential, auspicious, welcome, beneficial, fortuitous As I was sitting here today wondering what I should write about, all I could think about is How Fortunate Am I? Things aren’t always great and peachy, but…
Are you gonna let it go or make these Salted Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups?
“Later is the best friend of clutter” – Peter Walsh What makes us hold on to some things and easily toss others? For example, we were renovating, had a large dumpster, we were tossing things left, right and center and I found my mom’s wedding dress. Now, my mom was a teeny tiny beautiful woman, and…
Ode to 33 years!
We are coming upon our 33rd wedding anniversary. Who knew that a country girl from Colorado would meet up with an island boy and find her happily ever after? When we first met, I was a little wild to say the least. In fact, he calls our story The Taming of the Shrew and if…
Something is happening in my Universe
As I said in an earlier post, I have recently started meditating or at least I am trying to meditate (remember, the focus of this session was “Hope in Uncertain Times”, I know I know, but it was a 21 day challenge and I’m always up for a good challenge) and while this may be…
Perfect Melt in your Mouth Prime Rib and where the heck are my socks?
Easter 2017 Well, today I de-Eastered (I’m sure that’s not a word, but I’m using it anyway) and if you need translation, it means the lengthy process of putting things away, cleaning up, re-organizing, eating the rest of the candy (oops, no that’s not what I’m doing), dealing with leftovers, etc. I’m not complaining though,…
Today I feel secure knowing that tomorrow is another day!
Today I started a 21 Day meditation challenge with Oprah and Deepak and I will begin this by saying that I already started off on the wrong foot because today was actually Day 2, but I blew off Day 1. Now, in my defense, I had a rough night before the real Day 1 (I…
Sometimes you accidentally find things, just when you needed them most
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about my family heritage and particularly about close family members who have passed away, so while I was looking for some papers related to our property, I ran across some information about my grandfather and my mom that was shared at their funerals. Obviously I had filed these things…