Susan Mary Malone

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, but also that I’m leaving the benefits of […]

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 year, when we’re all running around like […]

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.  Right? So, merrily down […]

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 programming actually works. Because the subconscious mind (which governs […]

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 carry you across this river?  […]

Especially if you’re a woman.  But she changed it for everyone, man, woman, child. It’s so difficult, even in 2014, to imagine that in my grandmothers’ day, and even around the time my mother was born, women in this country couldn’t vote.  They could not vote.  It’s such a shocking idea that I have to […]

I’m a hugger. Everyone who knows me will tell you this! And not just a namby-pamby little hug, but full body, like I mean it 🙂   I always knew I got an emotional lift from doing so, and now I know why. Scientific proof abounds! But then, some things are just intuitive.   It’s also […]

You know, it’s tough to narrow down to one.  All great books change me.  In some way or another.  That’s a great book’s job—to show a new insight, a way of seeing that you’d missed before, to cause you to think and wonder and consider possibilities on far distant shores. Like you, I’ve had that […]

Ah, the holidays are upon us!  I’ve finally gotten away from stressing over shopping and presents (as my friends and family can attest!), and spend the holiday time enjoying folks. And eating.  Lots of eating.  Which makes me happy 🙂 Most of the time, I avoid sugar.  But this is the free-pass season.  And my […]

I have the very best friends on the planet.  Truly—the absolute world champions!  How blessed I am to have a handful of very close women, whose love for me is never in doubt.   And when I need them, do they ever come through! I’m pretty good at staying on track, working my spiritual/psychological program and […]

Oh, I tell ya, having to do all this research for my new novel, set in a Texas vineyard, is just so tough.  But as they say, somebody’s gotta do it, and I volunteered me! So, I’m doing lots of things, getting hands-on experience in every way I can think of.  And I’ve loved every […]

Sometimes stress gets the better of us (especially this time of year, with the holidays flying in fast!). We all at some point get anxious or sad or mad or any number of fear-based emotions. And then finding peace and happiness can be a trick for us all. Even the big hubba-bubba spiritual gurus go […]