How to Find Happiness In The Middle Of Your Bad Week

Do you sometimes feel that events have conspired against you?  That whatever evil force running amok in the Universe keeps shooting arrows into your back? When just everything seems to go wrong.  The car has a flat. The dishwasher breaks. The washer overflows.  Why...

Sunshine, Do Something That You Enjoy Today

Do you ever have one of those weekends that just feels like a reward?  When finally you get some rest and get to chill and just do the things you love? Okay, chores are always in there as well, but that’s normal day-to-day life. I just had one of those weekends.  Like...

Why Do We Think We Need To Be Happy All The Damn Time?

Or think positive?  Or vision, exactly, our successes? Isn’t this just mood making? Gabriele Oettingen, Professor of Psychology at New York University and the University of Hamburg, focuses her research on how people think about the future, and how this impacts...

How To Be Brave And Confident When You Don’t Want To

And we all run into that brick wall of not wanting to. You know the feeling—when you’ve been pursuing some goal, chasing a dream, and it just seems as though doors keep closing in your face.  Or, you keep failing at whatever task you’re trying to master.  Or your...

How To Quickly Know If It Is Fear Or Instinct Driving You

Just yesterday one of my editorial writers corresponded when she received her edited manuscript and critique.  That’s always a bit overwhelming for writers, but she said the magic words: “I hear what you’re saying about this one chapter, but my gut instinct is I need...

You Really Should Pat Yourself On The Back Today

Especially first thing in the morning, and last before going to sleep. It’s easy to wake up with negative thoughts, no?  And for sure if you’re not an “Oh, what a beautiful morning!” type of person.  Because you probably woke up grumbling to begin with. Ah, to stay in...