There are days when I think I am superwoman, or at least I try to be. These are the days that I fail miserably. Many of us know this feeling. It’s the feeling you get when you take on too much, put taking care of yourself last, and then find yourself exhausted at the end
FAILING FORWARD.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. – Rudyard Kipling What would happen to your life if you stopped making excuses and just reinterpreted “failures” as “purposeful endeavors”, necessary on your pathway to success? The only failure in life that is a true failure is the failure of not being
THE LEGEND OF PAIN.
Pain is an inevitable part of life; more often than not, we spend more time worrying about pain than actually experiencing it. In wake of yesterday’s uncharacteristic East Coast earthquake, it’s easy to remember that anything can happen at any time. The story of pain in our lives and of how we triumph over that
DISPENSE OF YOUR OLD TAPES
The benefit of long road trips is that you get to do both a lot of listening and a lot of thinking. While I spent more than my fair share of hours on I-95 this weekend I reflected a lot on the past, the present, and what I expect of the future. I realized that
SPARKLING FEAR
Hand written notes will never go out of style. They are the sparkle that makes a pile of bills more manageable, they are the written words of kindness and appreciation that we can read over and over again, and they are small acts of thoughtfulness that we save to remind ourselves of greater things. I
THE DR. SINGERMAN STRESS TEST
Dr. Singerman told me at age 20 that I was a failure. A tenured French professor, he laughed in my face when I declared that I wanted to be a French major, and he told me that I would never succeed. I can still recall the day I ran back to my room in tears after our conversation,
YOU: THE SUPERMAN WITHIN
I recently made a committment to do something every day that I do not want to do. It is the only way to grow and make myself better. Similarly, it is when we feel the most insecure in ourselves that we most need to shed our Clark Kent clothing and to step outside of our own comfort zone. In