Okay you’re pissed. And you’re trying really hard to not react, lose your cool, or overdramatize the situation. I could give you some gentle Buddha quotes to ease your temperament, but I doubt they’d help right now. A punching bag would probably be more useful. Or maybe some kitten therapy. If it makes you feel any …
Summer is just around the corner, which means you’re probably going to consider dieting and slimming down. You may consider buying new running shoes, supplements, and books filled with instructions on how to eat clean and detox your liver. Not gonna lie, they probably won’t help. The Boston Medical Center estimates that 45 million Americans …
Give today a chance to be everything you ever wanted it to be. When you wake up in the morning forget the, “Oh great…I gotta do <insert thing you’re dreading here>,” and say to yourself, “this will be an incredible day.” You have the ability to make each and every day amazing, happy, fun, adventurous, and …
We hem. We haw. We wonder. We sit in silence with glaring eyes and dissatisfied temperaments. All because people aren’t doing what we expect them to do. Expectation is the number one killer of relationships. Assumption is a close second. And communication brings up the rear. Our biggest fault, hugest mistake, most glaringly obvious blunder is placing …
They’re in there. They’re looking for you. Calling for you. They know you by name. They know all your secrets. Know your greatest desires and fears. Those damn cookies will haunt your dreams until you eat them. All of them. Savagely. Until they are but crumbs. And then you’ll eat the crumbs. Destroy all evidence. …
We all have monsters in our lives that we fear. But our fear is irrational. And it can go away if we want it to. There are two ways we can conquer our monsters: Acknowledge the monster and recognize it as something we made up in our heads. (Because, you know, stuff we make up in our heads …
Self-perception is an odd thing. We can try and try and try to not let other people’s words and actions determine our self-worth, but it’s really hard. And sometimes we trip over the stones others drop in front of us, regardless if they meant to drop them or not. Other people’s words and actions don’t define …
Sometimes when we feel lost we go into self-loathing mode and it’s hard to snap out of it. But feeling low does nothing productive for our state of disarrangement. So, we must actively manage our thoughts to prevent getting stuck in the abyss of dissatisfaction. In my personal life, so much has happened in the past four …
It is so easy to lose focus and forget what is truly important to us. And oftentimes it’s not until we break down that we realize how far from our path we’ve strayed. The good thing is the path itself doesn’t stray. That path is always there waiting for our return. So, all we need …
The most annoying thing about stress is that it is so immediate, so urgent, and so dramatic. Stress blows life out of proportion and takes over our otherwise rational thinking. Oh stress, how we loathe thee. There’s plenty of good advice on how to deal with stress. And it all seems so simple, so obvious. …
