Use Your Gifts to Change People’s Lives, Part 2

Use Your Gifts to Change People’s Lives, Part 2

How to Find Your Gifts and Passions The first step in using your natural talents is to find out what they are. For many this is easier said than done. How do you know when you are using your gifts? What does it feel like? And, what are gifts, or passions, anyway? Here...
The Power of a Smile

The Power of a Smile

Yesterday was busy. It was one of those days when one thing adds to the other and you just keep going and going.  When the afternoon rolled around, I found myself at the Wholefoods check-out counter feeling quite tense and worked up: There were still so many things on...

Losing Your Religion

“But that was just a dream Try, cry, why try? That was just a dream Just a dream, just a dream Dream”  -R.E.M   I talked to a friend of mine the other day who had just put in one week at her new corporate job. “It feels like I am losing my...
How Listening to Your Body Can Make You Happier

How Listening to Your Body Can Make You Happier

A few days ago I picked up Deepak Chopra’s new book ‘The Ultimate Happiness Prescription: 7 Keys to Joy and Enlightenment’ and I was delighted to find out that he dedicated one chapter to the practice of listening to your body. Most of us are masters...
How to Make Your Heart Glow

How to Make Your Heart Glow

It’s that time of year again and while preparing for Christmas, I couldn’t help but think that the most precious gift we can give to each other is to live our lives with an open heart. Happiness is a skill we are all born with. Keeping it alive in a...
Ease

Ease

On a day when I am crushed by the feeling of overwhelm and trying to relax the tight knot in my stomach, I stumble across Steth Godin’s new ebook: What Matters Now and find this entry:   EASE   “We are the strivingest people who have ever lived....