My maternal grandmother passed away last week. She was 86 and she lived a full life. By the end, she wasn’t healthy at all – she would get winded walking short distances, she was obese, and she had diabetes, two kinds of cancer, a brain tumor, and a pacemaker that was running low on batteries. [...]

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I watched Losing It with Jillian last night. She’s one tough trainer, but some people need that kind of coaching. What I like about her style is how she’s able to quickly break through people’s barriers by pushing the right buttons to get them to talk. Because half of what keeps people who are really [...]

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Have you been putting your dreams off for a more convenient time? Feel like you’re not ready to move forward? Try something new – trust yourself and your instincts. You have dreams for a reason. It’s time to validate them and go for them – life is too short not to. I got this quote [...]

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Appreciate the beauty in life and you’ll feel happy instantly. I had to get up early recently to attend a breakfast meeting. Though I was running a little late, I had to stop and take this photo. I couldn’t believe how beautiful the sky was at sunrise. (If you’re looking at this on Facebook and [...]

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You do have a choice when it comes to happiness. What do you choose? Image from Headup -  via Thank Goodness It’s Monday.

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I look for more reasons to appreciate. The more I appreciate, the better I feel. The better I feel, the more I am allowing who I am to flow through me. The more I allow who I am to flow through me – the better I feel. – The Teachings of Abraham Well-Being Cards

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Food does not have to be complicated to be delicious. Some of the best dishes I have ever made I invented on the spot without a recipe. Have you ever cooked a dish on a feeling instead of a recipe? This works best if you can drop your fears of making a bad dish and [...]

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I’m a professional public speaker, but I wasn’t born this way – far from it, in fact. It took a long time for me to get there, mostly because of this one thing I wasn’t doing. I resisted my fear for a long time. It’s not easy to face it, but just by doing so [...]

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