“Sometimes, you just need a break, in a beautiful place, alone, to figure everything out.” – Unknown What do you find yourself doing when you have time alone? Are you the workaholic type where phone calls and emails fail to cease? Perhaps you are that busybody type who chooses to never sit down, even when …
“Before you assume, learn. Before you judge, understand. Before you hurt, feel. Before you say, think.” – Unknown Life is full of surprises. There are so many distracting, unplanned events occurring daily across the globe, let alone in our personal lives. Sometimes it’s hard to know who to listen to or what direction to go. …
“He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.” – Benjamin Franklin I have always been one to lose stuff. A wallet, (with money or a check in it) car keys, a phone, you name it. If it were not lost, it was certainly …
“Have you prayed about it as much as you have talked about it?” – Unknown When life gets unbearable, what do find yourself doing? Not what you say you will do, but what you actually do when all hell breaks loose in your life. If you are anything like me, what you say you …
“The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost Life can be complicated, unpredictable and sometimes just hard. Being married has its own set of issues as well as being single, and when you add children, (young or older) work life scenarios and family dynamics to the mix it can get even more complex. At …
“To remember who you are, you need to forget who they told you to be” – Unknown Have a moment of reflection with me… Think back on the things you have learned over the course of your life, whether through formal education or through the school of hard knocks. Both have relevance and have probably …
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“Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it.” – Unknown For some it just comes naturally, while for others it requires discipline, commitment to the cause, and hard work. A description that usually depicts the natural talents of a star athlete or …
“Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon to your challenges. So relax” – Bryant McGill A few months ago I was looking through the iTunes app store and came across an App called “Sleep Cycle”. It sounded interesting and it was free for the first thirty days, so I thought, why not give it a try. …
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“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.” – Elkhart Tolle How many times have you referred to someone or something as “being deep”? Deep like in they had profound knowledge of a particular subject matter or they simply had a dynamic …
“Believe that your best life is still yet to come, and you will live a different and better life” – Henry G. Nutt, III We live in a day an age where negative news bombards every media outlet known to man. There is simply no escaping it. I just witnessed a mother beating …
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