Attention is the rarest form of generosity.

~Simone Weil

Take a few moments and put yourself first.

What?!

You heard me.

I’m not talking about the self-absorbed me-only mentality that pervades life. I’ m talking about the kind of self-love that is required for you to drop your blocks, your issues. Can you honestly say you’re in love with yourself?

Wanting to be the first in line, desiring to get one of the…

Carol was in my office the other day, talking once again about the dress shop she dreamed of opening. Carol, a mythical name, comes once a month to talk about how unhappy she is, and more importantly, to dream.

I asked her if she was dreaming or scheming about the shop.

She laughed. Then sighed. “Dream… at the moment…”

It was a dream because she hasn’t taken the trouble to work out any steps toward her goal. She’s been talking about it for over a year. I challenged her…

• Who had a houseful of holiday guests this last week?
• Who almost went off like a pressure cooker?
• Who blew an emotional fuse?
• Did your expectations get met, deflated or exceeded?
• Are you emotionally exhausted?

The holidays are supposed to be a fun, joyous series of occasions. They get ruined with baseless expectations. Expectations are set ideas about what the outcome of a situation should be. They are inaccurate more often than not, and…

There are two ways to live. You can live as if nothing is a miracle or you can live as if everything is a miracle.

~Albert Einstein

It’s been easy to get caught up in the mundane aspects of life after anticipating the Holiday of this past week. Now that the guests are gone, it’s back to routine tasks.  In doing so, you may fail to notice the miracles all around you. You may even fail to notice the biggest miracle of all, you.

Finding the miracles…