We all want to succeed in what we set out to accomplish, right? Perhaps it’s a loving relationship or a career or a business or a joyful and meaningful life. I don’t know anyone who would consciously choose to “fail” in the fulfillment of their dreams. Do you? And yet what I hear time and again is: “I don’t know…
Month: August 2014
How Do You Keep Yourself Busy But Balanced?
Are you so busy that you keep telling yourself you don’t have time to do the things you’d really like to do? Or are you on the opposite side of the spectrum, watching the days go by while you accumulate things on your to-do lists without ever tackling or finishing them? I can relate to both scenarios. There have been…
Are You Everyone’s Surrogate Mom?
Are you the one who’s always ready to give a hand, fix a problem, or take responsibility for others? Well, that used to be me in a nutshell. I had a lovely friend and roommate in college who used to make fun of me whenever this tendency showed up in my relationships. She’d say, “Once a mother, always a mother…”…
How Do You Deal With Negative Habits?
I used to smoke cigarettes when I was younger. My mother smoked, her friends smoked, my friends’ parents smoked, so most of my friends and I started smoking when we were teenagers. It seemed such a normal thing to do. Of course, over the years it became a real addiction and at some point I was smoking an average of…