Self Improvement

Just when we got to the least amount of light of the entire year, it all turned around and started moving upwards. And all those small changes soon enough add up to significant changes...

We can handle a lot, even a lot of criticism, but once you involve our children, watch out. Now you are dealing with Mama Bear...

For the first minute, no one even noticed me standing at the desk. Then, when they did, they couldn’t believe I was their instructor. “Are you kidding me?” “She looks like she’s sixteen!” Not a great start . . .

I was raised with the idea that needing others meant you were weak. So I learned how to be strongly independent, fiercely guarding and fighting for what I needed and wanted in life. And then I met my husband . . .

When Steve Jobs gave his commencement speech at Stanford University, his topic was “How to Live Before You Die.” Since most of us have no idea how much time we have left on this earth, we live as if it is endless. Steve Jobs wasn’t so fortunate. His time,...

if you did not grow up with people who were so proactively working on their character traits, then you may have learned that the way to deal with stress is to slam doors, scream angrily, eat junk food, or freeze in depressive silence...

Were the traders foolish to fall for it? Or was the sell-off a reasonable response to a roller coaster economy?

Surrender to destiny or fate? Never! We need to mold and change our circumstances, to strenuously exert ourselves to overcome challenges! Not accept them! After all, are we not what we choose to be? Can't we will to be what we want to be?

Many of us have internalized an inner voice that constantly criticizes us with its self-defeating messages about how we just don't measure up...

Red cup. Blue cup. Healthy cup. Soda cup. Your work is a cup. Your free time is a cup. What are you doing with your cup? Are you filling your cup with more cups?