Gratitude: Not a Platitude

Gratitude isn’t about burying our heads in the sand and pretending that bad things don’t happen. It’s an effective technique that improves our mental habits and therefore, our quality of life. When we’re feeling grateful, we can’t be...

Antidote for the Blues

Cultivating gratitude is an effortless way to improve our quality of life. Our dominant thoughts, emotions and feelings attract people, places and things that match our energy. The external details of our lives aren’t actually responsible for the way we feel....

A Game Changer

Our experience of life is a direct result of how we view and interpret what happens. Getting conscious of how we think illuminates why we feel the way we do. Once we understand the correlation between our thoughts and our experience, we’re inspired to take...

The Intentional Approach

Most of us tend to ignore what’s going well in our lives. We assume we need only pay attention to things that aren’t working so we can figure out how to fix them. While it’s important to acknowledge what needs improvement, there’s a far more...

Take Nothing for Granted

Even the surest predictions are occasionally wrong. It’s natural to gauge our expectations, assumptions and attitudes upon averages and generalities gathered from the past, but nothing is guaranteed. We can deal with this realization by trying even harder to...

Presence Through Appreciation

Our ability to see, hear, smell, taste and touch offer us access to a medley of amazing delights in the present moment. When we add our ability to experience love and joy to this banquet, there’s never a shortage of things to appreciate. The unconscious habit of...