March 25th, 2009 by Anne | No Comments
Believe it or not, what you eat changes how you feel about things. If you want to feel good more often, eating well will be a huge step in making that happen.
Now, I believe in making healthy and happy habits work for your lifestyle. Making the move from unhealthy habits to healthy habits is a [...]
March 17th, 2009 by Anne | No Comments
It is my belief that your attitude will make or break how happy and successful you will be in life. Why do I think this to be true? Because it makes sense when you think about it.
If you approach life with the mentality that you will fail, that you aren’t good enough, and that nothing [...]
March 13th, 2009 by Anne | No Comments
Sometimes, in order to feel inspired for life, we need to try something new. Even if it’s not new, something that is not in the usual routine. So here’s a challenge: do something new this weekend!
Think outside the box here – if you have a bit of cash, you could go for something thrilling like [...]
March 12th, 2009 by Anne | No Comments
Music speaks to me loudly quite often. There’s a great song by the band Superchic[k] called “We Live”, and it talks about living every moment like you could die at any minute.
I encourage you to give it a listen and take it to heart.
March 11th, 2009 by Anne | No Comments
This is a saying I grew up hearing from my mom: Hope for the best, plan for the worst. This has stuck with me for years. If you really think about it, this is a great mental attitude to have about life. What better way to live than with hope and preparedness?
The beginning of the [...]
March 10th, 2009 by Anne | No Comments
Curiosity is a strange motivator. It makes us do strange things at times. Sometimes, the strange things curiosity makes us do gets us into trouble. At the same time, who would want to live without curiosity?
Curiosity fuels our desire for knowledge. We learn because we want to know, we want answers to our questions. If [...]
March 9th, 2009 by Anne | 1 Comment
Here’s a novel concept: treat the random people you meet day in and day out like, well, real people.
Don’t objectify the girl behind the counter making your sandwich as just a sandwich maker. She has a life, relationships, hopes, hobbies and dreams. Treat her as such. She may be having a rough day. Say “please” [...]
March 8th, 2009 by Anne | No Comments
We can take this idea of finding your role from another angle. In our strengths, we are all different. Some jobs seem more glorious than others. The speaker in front of the crowd is necessary to bring about an awareness. The worker behind the scenes is necessary to make it happen.
Knowing the job that you [...]
March 7th, 2009 by Anne | No Comments
We all have strengths and weaknesses. The first step is to realize what these are. The second step is to take on jobs that allow us to use our strengths. The third is to develop our weaknesses.
When it comes to making an impact (on myself, friends, the world), I know that my strength is coming [...]
March 6th, 2009 by Anne | No Comments
Originality and creativity are severely lacking in today’s society. How do I know? We’re all trying to slum by at the lowest common denominator, insisting we all go at the pace of the slowest person, and somehow we’re all okay with that. It’s usually in the name of “equal opportunity” and “fairness”.
I think that we [...]