Stepping Out of Our Past To Create A Good Life
“ Biography does not equal destiny.” Tony Robbins What a great line, a great concept. When we believe our past shapes our future, we’re missing the boat of life. Yes, it may explain things and provide understanding but ‘using’ the past as a reason why things can’t be better, or accepting the way things are […]
Giving Yourself Advice
Here’s a great question to guide you towards living a better quality of life with hopefully fewer regrets. (Taken from my current study of positive psychology {certificate program} with Tal Ben-Shahar) You’re over 100 years old and you’ve been transported back to today. You have the wisdom and experience of a long-lived life. You have but […]
What Do You See More Of – What You Have Or What You Lack?
Food for thought: “Keep your eye on the donut and not upon the hole.” What are you focusing on? ……. The hole with it’s emptiness and lack of dough? The cake with it’s icing and sprinkles? If you’re stuck in the hole, how can you begin to see your way out towards that luscious strawberry […]
Character Strengths Push Us Through
Determination, perseverance, optimism and creativity- four character traits or strengths that can carry us far in life and serve us very well. My recent interviewee, Glenda Watson Hyatt, listed these four qualities as instrumental in helping her live well, together with her personal challenges. These inner resources of wealth can make all the difference in […]
Powerful Life Statements by Katrina Kenison
My interview with Katrina Kenison is to date my most popular interview. It got picked up by numerous blogs, quoted, referred to and linked to more than any of my other 25 monthly interviews of the past two years. I’d like to highlight a few of Ms. Kenison’s key and poignant statements. “A gift cannot be […]
“The Real Disability Is Ignorance”
“To all you people out there, yes of course we have challenges. But a real challenge-the real disability is ignorance.” Bill Ott I feel compelled to share this incredible story. It stands out as an extraordinary example of possibility, of limitless possibilities. We are all more than what we’re not. Hopefully, with time and societal […]
Each Day is Precious, Singular and Irretrievable
“I recently read about an elderly man who, in an attempt to remind himself to live more consciously, filled a bowl with tiny stones that he counted out to represent the number of days he imagined he might still have left to live. In good health at seventy three, he thought if his luck […]
There’s a Whole Person Beyond the Label of Sickness
Treat a patient, not a disease. This concept really resonated with me when I saw it beautifully portrayed in the Patch Adams movie. It’s not, ‘where’s the diabetic’, it’s ‘where’s Mr. ___ who has diabetes.’ Sounds a bit semantical, nonsensical and a longer version of saying the same thing. But in reality it has huge […]
Proactively Supporting A Friend In Need
Two of my close friends are going through difficult times: one due to the death of her mother with whom she had a very beautiful and close relationship, and the other with generalized anxiety and despair. In my attempts to be a good supportive friend, I’ve come to a realization. It’s not enough to say, […]
How We Cope – It’s All About Mind-Set
Writing up my recent interview with Steven Benvenisti brought me back to my daughter, Nava’s, medical crisis. Visuals which had made their way to the background of my mind due to the passing of time (10 years now), suddenly were right back in front of my eyes. Like Mr. Benvenisti, Nava miraculously has her life […]