Life is serious business.  There are bills to be paid, friends and family to attend to, and jobs to be done.  That’s all essential.  Focusing only on the essential can be a lifesaver when you’re in a stressful situation.  But the rest of the time, it can simply make your world very small.
And as my [...]

I’m not one to worry about getting older or avoid birthdays.  (Give me another decade and I might get a bit more concerned, but I hope not.)  In fact, as another birthday approaches, the overwhelming feeling I have is, “Thank goodness I’m older!”  Think I’m kidding? Try these reasons on for size:

You can live the [...]

Whether we like it or not, days bleed into one another and weeks slip by quickly.  I hate the feeling of looking back on a month and thinking, “Wait…  Now what did I do again? Anything?”  One way to ease your mind that your days have been well spent is to focus less on checking [...]

When a device or component stops working, what do we do? We reset it. And pretty much every time, that item starts working again.  Wouldn’t it be nice if we could do the same with our lives?  That’s a theory I’ve been putting to the test for the last few weeks.
When Is a Reset in [...]

This is a guest post by Nadia Ballas-Ruta of Happy Lotus.
We all, at one time or another, have pretended to be a rock star, singing and dancing along to our favorite song. Most of us have done this in the privacy of our own room when we were kids and as adults, in the [...]

We all have our images of a perfect life, don’t we? Maybe it’s living in New York, eating all kinds of amazing food, and catching the latest shows on a whim. On the other hand, maybe your ideal life involves sitting on a rocking chair, watching the wind blow by, and having endless hours to [...]

Forget lifestyle gurus, it’s five year olds who really know how to live. They have the whole world ahead of them, and they know it. (They also have a few embarrassing wet pants moments still ahead of them, but don’t we all?)  I have the pleasure of working with this age group a few times [...]

1.  No one gasps in horror when you inevitably screw something up. Instead, you can get away with an “Oops” and a charming smile.
2.  When you do get something incredibly right, you get to celebrate and bask in the glory–not get a chorus of “Yeah, yeah—what else is new?”
3.  You get to try new things [...]