Everyone wants to find happiness. That is such an obvious thing, and something that nobody can argue with—and yet it can be a real challenge to actually make sure that you find happiness in your life. Why is that? One reason could be that most of us are at least a…
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I know I am a week late with the August Gratitude Circle blog hop but there are pretty good reasons why. If there’s one thing I’ve realized yet again, it is that I am stronger than my circumstances. In these already challenging times, it is amusing how life keeps presenting bizarre…
How easy it is to let a mistake or a wrong decision to impact our lives negatively—long after the event happened! Can you ever stop beating yourself up? These incidences keep us trapped in regrets and stop us from enjoying our present. We end up missing new experiences and opportunities. Staying…
Change is good, but adapting to change is also hard. Last week I felt a little more overwhelmed than usual and wrote a post – I may look okay but I am not really okay. I felt a bit better afterwards and decided the best way to get over it is…
How often have we scoffed at someone when they said “live in the present moment”! But really, think about what are you going to do with your today? We can get so caught up with thinking about what we want to do with our lives that we forget to pause and…
Having a shortcoming pointed out is never comfortable in the best of times but being accused of being too nice for your own good always stings a little more. I should know. I believe every one of us is a bit of a people pleaser in varying degrees. And when someone…
I have been wondering – are we making life harder than it has to be? Oh, life is tough. With a million things to manage on a daily basis, it is no surprise we lag behind more often than we care to admit. Still, life probably hard sometimes because we can…