Our lives move at a constant 85 mph. It is a pace of life that is adulated by American society for its efficiency, productivity, and ability to “do it all” in one day. The sad truth is that 85 mph is a speed which prevents us from really living. Someone told me this weekend that
AS DIFFERENT AS GREAT DANES & CHIHUAHUAS
People’s tastes in dogs never fails to amaze me. Some like big dogs, some small, and some not at all. I myself am a Great Dane kind of girl; I’ve recently come dangerously close to buying a Dane puppy, but resisted thanks to the common sense of my friends and family who reminded me that
STRESS = MESS
Stress is the greatest thief of all time. It is the villain that we fail to recognize even though it stares us straight in the face on a daily basis. When stress enters our lives, our lives change. True intimacy and human connection becomes tainted, laughter fades, and our body recoils in self-protection. The hormone
WORK SMARTER, NOT HARDER
I heard a story today from someone who once worked at a gas station in South Carolina. At this gas station, the owner only used one type of gasoline: the cheapest. He put this unleaded fuel into all pumps and labeled them unleaded, regular and premium, and for an entire summer, he maximized on people’s
MEDIA EXPLOSIONS & PERFECT ABS
We are bombarded by media images on a daily basis, but whether we allow them to slither into our minds or not is completely in our control. I love the photograph below and I feel like it captures the turmoil that goes on in so many of our inner thoughts and struggles for self-identity. The
THE METRO MAN
The New York City subway is many things: dirty, smelly, confusing, extensive, interesting and a world within a world. It is the life underneath one of the greatest cities in the world, and you could literally live there. I once knew a Watson Scholar who spent a year underground, living entirely in the different subway
DANCING ON COUCHES
Confidence is contagious. It is also magnetic. A life lived with confidence is a life that is maximized and lived to the fullest. The secret about confidence is that it doesn’t depend on circumstantial things like your physique, your clothes, or your position in life. Confidence is a choice. It is a decision you can
BLACK FRIDAY, CITY LIGHTS & DREAMS
No city in the world moves me that way that Paris does, but every city does move me in a different, special way. Black Friday shopping in D.C. and Pentagon City this morning with one of my very best friends Gloria made me realize that I don’t take advantage of my proximity to D.C. often enough.
LIVE, LOVE, & EAT 86,400 SECONDS OF THANKS
Happy Thanksgiving! As you turkey trot your way around the local roads and your kitchen this morning, take thanks in every small moment of this day. There are 86,400 seconds in a day; catch these seconds as you live them and give thanks for every small detail of this holiday. If you run a local Turkey
STORMS, HOLIDAYS AND RAINBOW BRIGHT
The dreariness of early nightfall can make late Fall a depressing time of year, full of dark nights and cold rain. Even though we don’t typically seem many rainbows during the Fall or Winter, I do believe that they surround us in our lives more than we typically recognize. Holidays are times that carefully
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