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...
pas•sion•ate –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...
re•sil•ient 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...
“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...
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,...
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,...
When you love someone and you see them hurting, it’s tough to stand by and watch. You want to fix it. You want to come to their aid, by their side, and fix the situation or sometimes, try even to fix them. I want to challenge you to try something.
“Never will I allow myself to become so important, so wise, so dignified, so powerful, that I forget how to laugh at myself and my world. And so long as I can laugh never will I be poor.” - Og Mandino
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.” ~ Rumi Surrender is really hard for me. To me, it conjures up images of the loser in a battle. And I don’t like to lose. Why then do I get all breathy when...
Many will argue that their child, or an elephant, could do what Jackson Pollock did to canvas. Maybe so, but I say there was probably no one better at surrendering to an organic creative process. He let the paint be what it is and do what it does. He not only accepted how paint...