Trying Times

Everything feels more difficult when we’re going through major transitions. Minor irritations seem bigger because our bandwidth is smaller. Whether it’s a move, change in relationship, death of a loved one, birth of a baby, illness, career or job change,...

Challenges Are Opportunities

All challenges can be viewed as opportunities. Filtering our experiences this way quickens our personal evolution. Conversely, self-pity, blame and resistance keep us stuck, drain our energy and fuel what we don’t like. Challenges are actually indications that...

Life Works Out

Life usually works out just fine, especially when we trust that it will. This is because what creates our experience of life is the way we interpret and respond to it. Challenges are inevitable. When we rise to meet them, we become stronger. Each one prepares us to...

Peace Is Outside Our Comfort Zone

It’s tempting to try to protect ourselves from challenges or new experiences. The unfamiliar can seem threatening to the comfort of a carefully cultivated safety zone. However, attempting to stave off change will only serve to frustrate and prevent us from...

Energy Mastery

Navigating unwanted developments with balance and good cheer results in ever greater opportunities for growth. Each situation handled well expands your skills, cognitive abilities and consciousness. Every new level brings deeper access to information, tolerance and...

Life Loves Growth

Have you ever noticed that, just when everything seems to be going swimmingly, life tosses you an assignment? It’s not that life doesn’t want you to relax, it just wants to support you in growing. The more proactively you take the reins of expansion, the...