I am aware it's not calendar " day 4".  My pace.  Deal with it. :)

Day 4: Beware Unhealthy Sacrifice
To be happy, you have to know the difference between healthy sacrifice and unhealthy sacrifice. Healthy sacrifice is giving up something that is not helpful, authentic or smart for something that is, e.g., stop saying yes to everyone, cut your to-do ( Read more... )

Day 4: Beware Unhealthy Sacrifice
To be happy, you have to know the difference between healthy sacrifice and unhealthy sacrifice. Healthy sacrifice is giving up something that is not helpful, authentic or smart for something that is, e.g., stop saying yes to everyone, cut your to-do list in half, quit trying to please everyone and stop denying your ( Read more... )

Day 3: I Choose Happiness
As soon as you wake up, you start making choices. Most of your choices are to-do choices, like taking a shower, getting dressed, fixing breakfast or drinking caffeinated or decaffeinated. There is another category of choices which are your "to be" choices, like being present, being loving and being happy. So, here's a big ( Read more... )

Live Journal is a great place to put to paper the lectures you rattle through your brain that you prep for yourself and your Mirror Time.   I am working on my art again, elevating my perception of my place as an Artist and it's value.  So a quick click on the tags on the side of my own journal and Voila.  My own lectures to the past and future ( Read more... )

  Your success is directly ______  by your Demons.

Proportional? Demoralized?  Eroded?  Destroyed?

Ambition + skill + work [to the power of repeat] + {little bit of luck} = Success
Ambition + skill + work [to the power of repeat] + {little bit of luck} + Success = (Success+ Success)

SO here I sit.
Looking at this equation and realising that if I ( Read more... )

The workshops/classes I have been taking through the Pain Center cover many different topics: Posture, Breathing, psychology, Communications,  Medications, etc etc etc   Some of them are lecture format, some one-on-one and some are practicums.    All of it good information when applied.

I caught myself this morning having a full on emotional and ( Read more... )

On April 14th I wrote about the simple things in life that I have power over to change.

The List of 10 and my progress on them -

1. Am I doing what I can to prevent headaches and promote health?    No.
2. drink water ?   Up to 2 - 3 / day
3. 'move' at least once a day ? Even if it's just to climb the stairs to find my heels!
4. choose foods for a feeling of ( Read more... )

My front yard, as many of you have seen ( or heard about), looks like a war field.  Trenches and orange fences, mounds of gravel and dirt and tiny walk over paths are providing children's imaginations hours of antics with stick guns and whoops of battle cries.  We won't comment on the frequency of trips to the Medic tent for scraped knees and war ( Read more... )

Writer's Block ( Read more... )

* Victory Dance!*

I watched a horror movie!!! A predictable, run of the mill, ghosts teling you to " GET OUT" horror movie! I poked fun at it. Jumped a couple of times at the BOO moments and then came home and slept " like the dead. " ( EVIL GRIN)

The Parents wouldn't listen. The kid was rebelious. The Ghosts were misunderstood. The key players ( Read more... )