Aunt Clara’s 3 ways to live to 99+ – free and laughing!

I spoke to my dear Aunt Clara a few days ago – the Aunt Clara who is my WOW (What an Old Woman) and is busy planning her 100th birthday party next April (she’s not sure yet whether it will be at her home or a hotel … but will let me know).  Throughout the [...]

What to do when you can’t find 10 things to be thankful for …

Every morning for the past 6 months or so I have written 10 things I am grateful for in my journal.  It used to be 5, and one day I decided to double it.
I have, and continue to recommend this highly to everyone – it is so powerful and important to the quality of one’s [...]

“Happy Father’s Day Mom”

I have become used to hearing these words every Father’s Day for the past 11 years, ever since my children’s father and I separated and he returned to his native country.
In the first few years of becoming a single mom,  I really tried hard to be both mom and dad to my children.  Then one [...]

This is IT! Today’s the day! Now is the time!

This is IT!!!! Feeling a sense of excitement as I look forward to moving to the second round of the Next Top Spiritual Author Competition. Voting for this round closes at 11.59 p.m. tonight.  Let’s leave NOTHING to chance – VOTE for your favourite Spiritual Author (hopefully it’s me – lol) and encourage your friends [...]

“Thank you” is enough …. but go further

How often do we take the time to tell someone “thank you” – but even more, to go beyond the simple thank you (which is enough) and fully express our gratitude?
I mused on this when I opened my Inbox on the weekend to find this heartwarming e-mail.  I felt so good reading it that I [...]

No complaints – 6 ways to live a complaint-free, grace-filled life!

Everyday, everywhere we go, we are surrounded by complaints. People complain about everything – the weather is a popular starting point for a conversation: in Canada, people complain about the cold; in Jamaica people complain about the heat.  We complain about the government.  We complain about people with whom we have passing interactions i.e. strangers.  [...]

Haiti – how in the world do you remain free and laughing in the face of such devastation?

I returned home last night to find this e-mail from my sister:
Here from Jeanguy in Haiti (Facebook – give thanks!)….”Lycee” is High School
I love you all , I am alive … I’m very sad for Haiti , for all these girls from Lycee Marie, all these people dying …and I couldn’t do anything . Once [...]

How to live gratitude – just for a moment

Check out “Today’s Bright Spark” from Carmen C (scroll right and down).  It is beautiful.

To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.
- Johannes A. Gaertner

It is one thing to speak and enact gratitude.  But what does it mean to LIVE [...]

How to end your day – free and laughing!

“At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod you.”
– Jim Rohn
At the end of your day do you “play back the tapes of your performance” at Jim Rohn urges?  Or do you crash into bed exhausted,  admonishing yourself for all the planned [...]

11 ways that I use journaling

My Latin teacher in high school would drill into us the importance of writing things down, pointing out that when you write something you commit it to memory.  I therefore developed the habit of writing down my thoughts in my teen years.  Journaling is one of the most valuable techniques for consciousness and awareness.  It [...]

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