Think Positive Just For Today

So all those statistics listed before about how optimism does work to enhance our lives weigh solid on my mind. What it mainly does is pierce my excuses with Hunger-Games’ like arrows.  Because not only do I know that when I’m being negative I’m attracting more crap,...

3 INDICATORS OF HAPPINESS IN THE MAKING

Life is so full of insanity.  As my mamaw used to say, “Ain’t it though.”  She believed in tornadoes and storm cellars, staying clear of cattle with horns.  Life on a farm in west Texas!  But I digress. Especially, though, insanity seems to reign during this time of...

THOUGHT STOPPING: 4 STEPS TO OVERCOMING THE NEGATIVE

So we have all those 50,000 thoughts running through our heads every day, and we know we want to at least make use of them!  I mean, if they’re going to be there anyway (which they are), they may as well be helping to achieve our goals, rather than sabotaging them. ...

AFFIRMATIONS WORK EITHER WAY

A long time ago, I started visualizing goals. Not just the finish line, but each step of the way. Top athletes do this all the time—visualizing each stride, stroke, leap on their way to competition. And what we know now through neurolinguistic studies, is that this...

SOMETIMES YOU JUST NEED TO SAY NO

Easier said than done, no?  I think that’s one of the most difficult things I ever learned.  And we all know why. Women, especially, are programmed to say yes.  Especially to a request from others.  You want me to take your son to school?  Of course.  You want me to...