Great Expectations

“Learn to wish that everything should come to pass exactly as it does.” – Epictetus Expectations often lead to stress either before or after an event. When we are planning an event we create certain expectations of how that event will happen and what people will...

Break Those Money-Sapping Stress Habits

For this week’s post, I’m sharing an article at www.thestreet.com for which I was interviewed — check it out! Break Those Money-Sapping Stress Habits We can all use a reminder of how we tend to spend extra cash when we’re feeling blue… or...

What's in Your Pocket?

What motto your do carry around with you? Most likely it is something in your subconscious that filters everything you think about yourself. As an adult are you able to see what programming you carry that was embedded into you by the people who raised you? Think about...

Memorial Day: a good day to begin a habit of gratitude.

Memorial Day has become a holiday that marks the beginning of the summer season: pools open; summer furniture takes its place on the patio; and, in some climates, winter clothes are put into storage and summer frocks brought out for the season. Today is Memorial Day –...

Feeling nagged by procrastination?

“A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it’s better than no inspiration at all” — Rita Mae Brown            Ugh – I know I need to get this thing done, but ….  It is amazing how easy it is to put something off.  Even the laundry begins to take on new...

What matters most?

Happy Mother’s Day to everyone who is a mother or has a mother (living or living in memory only). I’d like to share with you a story I received in an email a couple of years ago called “Two Glasses of Wine”. On this Mother’s Day, it is a great reminder to us to...

"The Swine flu: is the sky falling??"

Ever feel like Chicken Little these days: worried that the sky is falling and everything around us is collapsing? Now, on top of everything else going on in the world we have the World Health Organization (WHO) announcing the swine flu has reached pandemic status....

Welcome to my blog!

I look forward to you joining me in my weekly musings as I contemplate this journey called life. I’ve started this blog as an online extension of my book, Stop the Stress Habit. I enjoyed writing that book and I embrace this opportunity to return to writing and...