Minding Tiger’s business

For the past two weeks, all sorts of things have been happening in the world – the USA is sending more troops to Afghanistan, there is a climate change conference in Denmark which most world leaders are attending; the atrocities in Darfur, Myanmar and other places continues; the economic crisis shows no signs of being […]

Choosing to be free and laughing in the cold!

My children are having the greatest time experiencing snow for the first time.  I think Shane, my son, must have thrown at least a hundred snowballs yesterday!   And he could not resist jumping into the snow mounds piled high by the snowplows!   While I was out at a Festival of Carols, they had […]

Footprints of a champion!

We awoke early this morning to the beauty of a blanket of white covering everything within sight.    It has been 25 years since my last snowfall, and so I was as excited and transfixed this morning as ever!  For my daughter, it was her very first sight of snow, and it was magical!  You could […]

The awesome power of making the bed

There are days that are very productive and some that are not.  Some days, I declare with a real sense of accomplishment “It was a very good day”.  Then there are others when I review my list of “things to do” and see very little accomplished.  Now, I know that if I do something once, […]

How to bring ease, grace and joy to this holiday season

It is December already!  The end of the year looms, and the beginning of a new year is imminent.  To get there however, we have to make it through the holiday minefields of parties, shopping, cooking, entertaining, giftgiving.  The very thought raises our stress levels! Now is a good time to affirm ease, grace and […]

Customer service that has me free and laughing!

Here’s one more reason I am loving Canada! My daughter had a challenge with an employee of the Toronto Transit Commission.  Incensed, I wrote the TTC.  Two Fridays ago, I received a telephone call replete with apologies, and today received a formal letter, the contents of which I reproduce here.  “Free and laughing” means loving […]

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 […]

Wherever you go, good manners will keep you free and laughing!

“You frightened me” squealed the lady early Saturday morning.  I was on my way to class and was walking out of my complex.  She was ahead of me, but I was a tad late so I was walking faster.  As I overtook her, I singsonged “Goodd morrningggg”.  She jumped – frightened that a stranger would […]

Procrastination – friend or foe?

Last week I committed to a 75-day Action Challenge Program, hosted on Facebook by Julette Millen.  Yesterday, Julette asked us to consider the habit that is most holding us back and to write a paragraph on it.  Here is my “paragraph”: The one habit that I know keeps me back is PROCRASTINATION.  I am quite […]

7 steps to finding the positive value in negative emotions

There is nothing wrong with negative emotions.  Our emotions, be they negative or positive, simply exist.  When we learn to accept our negative emotions i.e. the emotions that do not serve our good, that feed on our fears (the ultimate negative emotion), then we can learn what this emotion is telling us about ourselves.  Negative […]

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