Every day, when the sun rises, is a new opportunity to start fresh.  To take the time you’ve been given and make something with it.  No one can do that for you.  You’ll never happen upon the life of your dreams by just floating along. Time marches on whether we make something of it or not.  It’s up to us to make our time count.  To make it mean something to us and to those around us.  Make it...

What makes you happy, if even for a short time?  Do more of that.What makes you angry, stressed, frustrated?  Do less of that.Who makes you laugh?  Spend more time with them.Who makes you feel inferior?  Stop giving them your most precious commodity…your time.Where do you feel energized?  Go there more.Where do you feel drained?  Go there less.When do you feel most alive? Dissect that...

When taking on a new challenge in life, whether it be a diet or exercise program or starting a business, start with the easiest tasks.  When starting new things, we tend to procrastinate getting started at all because we think of all the hardest things involved in accomplishing our goal.  What if instead we just chose the easiest things and did those?  No one tries to run a marathon the day they...

In today’s culture, much of our free time is spent consuming.  Whether it be food or media or entertainment.  Shopping for things we need and things we don’t.  We’re constantly taking something in and constantly wanting for more.  More food, more stuff, more social media, all in the hopes it will make us happy or make us numb to our lack thereof.  Yet no matter how much we consume, we’re...

When someone tells you that you have to do something, do you ever ask WHY?  Or when society leads you to believe you need to go left, do you ever consider going right?  Just because everyone else is doing it, doesn’t mean you have to.  And just because someone tells you you should, doesn’t mean you’re obligated to. I got to thinking about this concept the other day at work when a bride told me (I...

You are the CEO of your life. All the people that have led you to believe that you should do this or you’re supposed to do that, have no idea what they’re doing. None of us have any idea what we’re doing. Life is an experiment. There is no manual for how it works. What works for me may not work for you. What makes your parents happy or your neighbors happy may not make you happy. You determine...

Yesterday I’m in the produce section looking for cucumbers.  I’m scanning for cucumbers when I realize something interesting.  I’m not seeing anything else.  All I can see is what is a cucumber and what is not a cucumber.  This got me thinking about tunnel vision and how we subconsciously limit our options without even realizing it. Tunnel vision can be beneficial when it comes to reaching a goal...

The other day I was researching e-mail subscriptions services for this website.  You know, those really annoying pop-up windows that asks you to subscribe.  I hate those.  So I was searching for a way to offer a subscription offer in an unobtrusive way.  All this stuff is foreign to me.  I searched the web high and low, getting more and more confused with every article.  By the end of the day I’d...

For years and years I’ve thought about how much I’d like to write.  “I don’t have the time, the talent, the motivation” were some of my self-impeded road blocks.  The desire was there but it never amounted to anything.  I started to feel like a broken record, telling my husband how badly I wish I could get myself to write.  My perfectionist ways were keeping me from even trying.  I wouldn’t let...