Archive for the 'Stress' Category

What are your limits and who pushes them?

What are your limits? That may be a curious question. When I was first asked that question I remember thinking, “I don’t exactly know what my limits are, but I know when they’re pushed.” Learn how to take back control of your limits so you can calmly face the button pushers with a smile! Continue reading

Terminal Doing-ness

We live in a society obsessed with terminal doing-ness. We believe that our worth is determined by how much we produce, and we fear that if we step back for even a moment we will get behind and someone else will get ahead. Insanity! -Alan H. Cohen.

I used to believe that the more I do the better I was. I’ve learned that I get more done and love what I do when I can ponder over what it is that I want to do!
Discover the joy of being.
Enjoy Life!

Thank you, Tim Durling, for this quote!… Continue reading

The Hidden Power of Smiling

Smiling will help you live longer. Continue reading | 1 Comment

ANNA QUINDLEN’S COMMENCEMENT SPEECH

I cannot remember what she wore or how she felt that day. But I can tell you this about her without question: she was perfect. Being perfect was hard work, and the hell of it was, the rules of it changed. At one level it’s too hard, and at another, it’s too cheap and easy. Continue reading

The Invisible Mother

When our children are growing up it’s as if we exist only for them. Sometimes we are only a pair of hands, nothing more! The invisible mom. We forget that these hands once held books and studied history, music & literature, but now disappear into the peanut butter, never to be seen again.
The invisible moms find it hard to imagine, but they are building some of the greatest cathedrals in the world with those hands! Continue reading | 1 Comment