Due to popular demand, today’s blog post features a follow up to last week’s post, Are You a Worrier or a Warrior? This topic sparked lots of lively conversation by readers who wanted to know how to worry less and warrior more. Today I will discuss several strategies, drawing from real life examples, to help show you how to live, love, work, play, and parent like a warrior rather than a worrier. Transform your worrier into your warrior through the ”Triple A” approach. The...
Read MoreAre You A Worrier or A Warrior?
Are you a worrier or a warrior? A warrior is one who focuses on inner strength, courageous action, and steady discipline to achieve intended outcomes. A worrier focuses on negative scenarios, leaks energy, and fears unfortunate happenings. While worrying is a preoccupation with possible past, present, or future bad events, “warrioring” is a mental discipline, which focuses on possible positive future events. Worrying is a type of thinking which creates fear,...
Read MoreForgotten Magic: 6 Secrets to Alchemize Fear
Experiencing fear is a part of the human design. Thank God for fear; I mean seriously. It keeps us from lollygagging in the middle of a busy freeway and reclining on a hot stove. However, often times fear is invoked in our body and mind mistakenly. In the face of recent world tragedies, learning to alchemize fear is absolutely essential to your wellbeing. The forgotten magic is so simple you may guffaw. Just remember the proof is in the pudding. Put to practice these six...
Read MorePurposeful Living: Taking Time for Personal Reflection
I like to take periodic mini-vacations, in the comfort of my own home, where I can reflect on what is most important to me. Like an afternoon cat, I like to curl up on my favorite sunny pillows, stretch out, lay back and relax into thoughtful reverie. Purposeful living requires regular time-outs to take inventory of how time is being utilized. When is the last time your took a personal purposeful living inventory? In this time, I ask myself a series of guiding questions...
Read MoreThe Unknown: Learning How to Treasure Life Challenges
I swam with a one-armed treasure hunter this morning. Today was my initiation swim. As luck – or divine intervention – would have it, I was invited to swim Maui’s north shore coast with a pod of local swimmers. When I was introduced to Max, one of the leaders of our pod, I didn’t know he was a treasure hunter. In fact, I didn’t know anything except for the glaringly obvious – a brilliant smile and one missing arm. I immediately wondered what had happened to his...
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