Hold on to Your Power

One of my mentors, Virginia Satir,  taught me something that has been useful to  me and everyone else I have shared it with.  She said “treat everything that comes at you from the outside as something with which to cope, and not as a way to define yourself.

How often do you hear yourself [...]

Relationship of Equality

This morning I stopped by at a Storage facility to get information about  renting a locker.  My husband is executor of his aunt’s will and will need to store some of her antique furniture temporarily.  Jack told me what I needed to know and then went on to tell me about himself. What struck [...]

Raise Your Standards

When we raise our standards our quality of life improves.  Often times we are not even aware as to how much energy goes into putting up with stuff that can easily be handled..  For instance  it can be small things like fixing items in the house or something a bit bigger like being unhappy [...]

Challenge Yourself

In order to strengthen our personal foundation we have to be open to challenging ourselves.  I love to kayak and yesterday I paddled further than I ever had.  It was a beautiful peaceful  Memorial Day morning. What I realized was that so many times before I had said to myself: that is far enough, [...]

Build a Strong Personal Foundation with the 20 Minute a Day Plan

A strong personal foundation is the result of being in control of our life.  It is the daily steps we take to manage our life that bring long term results.

I love to cook and enjoy browsing through cookbooks.  Recently  I found an old cookbook and was disappointed  that there were no recipes that [...]