make your new year’s resolutions and goals for the coming year

Every year we do it, but we could always use a reminder to review this past year and make a list of fresh goals for ourselves.
But here’s a New Year’s Resolution making tip: Don’t just list projects like “lose weight” or “stop smoking”. Instead, list what you’d like to become. Becoming a better [...]

November Night

Listen . . .
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break from the trees
And fall.
—Adelaide Crapsey (American, 1878–1914)

Make No Small Plans

Every new year we’re always bound and determined to set resolutions from great to small. It’s like this clock that resets in our heads and hearts as well as on the calendar. We do a mental inventory of where we are and where we would like to go. Sometimes it’s depressing. [...]

To Be: Generous

“The more generous we are, the more joyous we become. The more cooperative we are, the more valuable we become. The more enthusiastic we are, the more productive we become. The more serving we are, the more prosperous we become.”
– William A. Ward

Live: Leaping

When life comes at you hard, it’s time to shake things up.
About two years ago I decided to do something I’ve always wanted to do…SkyDive. (Well…..strapped to someone who knows what they’re doing.) It was exhilarating! Fantastic! Mind-blowing! This was my controlled risk I wanted to take challenging every norm I’ve lived with my [...]

To Be: Passionate

pas•sion•ate
[pash-uh-nit]
–adjective

having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling; fervid.
ardently sensual.
expressing, showing, or marked by intense or strong feeling; emotional.
intense or vehement, as emotions or feelings.
easily moved to anger; quick-tempered; irascible.

“Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.”
- Christian Friedrich Hebbel

passionate. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/passionate [...]

To Be: Resilient

re•sil•ient
[ri-zil-yuh nt]
adj.

springing back; rebounding.
returning to the original form or position after being bent, compressed, or stretched.
recovering readily from illness, depression, adversity, or the like; buoyant.
Marked by the ability to recover readily, as from misfortune.

“Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with [...]

Love: Pay Attention

“Attention is the most basic form of love; through it we bless and are blessed.”
– John Tarrant
While life flies by, it’s easy to get caught up in the to do lists, the schedules, the hectic lives we all lead.
We text while we talk, we surf while we watch TV, and we talk while we [...]

Tim Russert Was No Head of State

by Kelley Taylor, Make Every Day A Holiday
Tim Russert was no head of state. He was never elected into office, he wasn’t a president of a large corporation, founder of an organization, leader of a nation, movie or rock star.
Yet with his passing, he has been mourned by media, politicians, business leaders, and common folk [...]

Live: Drive Time

Have you ever just gone through the motions of your day without really paying attention to what’s around you? I have! I swear I’ve even driven to work and back when, turning the key off, I wonder, “How did I get here?”
I’ve somehow managed to get lost in what I have to do, what’s [...]