Life Is How You Frame It

When you blame any person, place or event outside yourself for the way you feel, you give your power away. No one can make you feel anything. How you frame what happens to you does that. Even though it’s sometimes difficult to admit or even perceive, your...

Creating Our Experience of Life

Though the details of our lives vary, we all ultimately travel the same path. We grow, mature and begin to slow as the years roll on. We all experience similar emotions that range from deep peace to discontentment. We form our own identities and author stories that...

Your Focus Creates

There will always be contrast, conflict, constraint and challenge. Every aspect of your life can be perceived, categorized and responded to from many different vantage points. Each viewpoint you choose creates a different feeling and response. Fighting over...

Crises, Opportunities and Challenges

Situations that are difficult, troublesome or dangerous are called crises. Events that test your abilities are called challenges. Circumstances that create more possibilities or options are characterized as opportunities. Each of these words can be used by different...

Don’t Assume, Ask

The many people you interact with may come from such dramatically different backgrounds than you that their mannerisms, expressions and sense of propriety might seem inappropriate or out of balance to you. Keeping this in mind helps to prevent you from misinterpreting...

Face Feedback Fearlessly

Life constantly gives us opportunities to better understand ourselves. The way we feel about smiling strangers, random acts of generosity, angry drivers or rude clerks offers us clues about what’s going on inside. Our inner landscape is continuously being...