Posts Tagged ‘thankful’
The Grateful Life
If you haven't taken the time to truly appreciate your brain, you should. If you are coherent and can think and can feel and can reason and still be touched by inspiration, then you are truly blessed. I know sometimes it's difficult to be grateful for all of the things that seem so natural to us, but I believe it's a cleansing and revealing exercise to take stock of your life once in a while, and really count your blessings. The reason that I am focusing on the brain is that recently I have been thinking about my grandma. She was my [...]
Imagine That…or This
I was hanging out with my kids the other night and we were talking about all sorts of cool stuff. We were laughing and having a wonderful time, as we often do in our crazy household. At some point during the conversation it occurred to me that one of the best parts about talking with the kids is in just listening to what they come up with next. Kids have such wonderful imaginations. They are pure and they are free. They haven’t taken the cultural beat-down that we have as adults. They haven’t been introduced to limitation. [...]
Dare to be Happy
You want happiness? Then be happy! One of the greatest discoveries you can make in all of life is that you are fully capable of being happy at any time and in any place just by deciding to be. I often tell people to become conscious of their thoughts and feelings and if they don’t like them…simply change them. Of course, just as often I get that “you must be crazy” look back from them. But it’s true - You can become more positive right now, wherever you are just by making the decision to be. Literally, it only takes a [...]
