Nov 28, 2019 | Happiness Fulfillment & Self Esteem |
As Thanksgiving is typically the start of the holiday season, I thought I’d just drop in to remind you to stop and smell the turkey (or stuffing or mashed potatoes or wine or whatever works for you). Today, just stop a couple of times and be present in the moment....
Nov 14, 2019 | Happiness Fulfillment & Self Esteem, Stress Relief
Every year at the end of Thanksgiving and Christmas season, I hear how miserable people are and how they vow to never have another holiday season like that again. Then the next year comes and boom, they are miserable all over again. We all know that over committing,...
Nov 7, 2019 | Happiness Fulfillment & Self Esteem
A client recently told me that he was afraid to make a big life move because it could lead to him being miserable. He said this as if he had no choice in the matter. I realized that most of us feel this way. We are afraid to take risks because what if they don’t go...
Oct 24, 2019 | Happiness Fulfillment & Self Esteem, Parenting
Last week, I wrote a blog post about how we’ve pushed our children to find success so that they can find happiness in life. It made me realize that most of us are on a backward happiness hunt. We’ve tied our happiness to success: financial success, material success, a...
Oct 10, 2019 | Happiness Fulfillment & Self Esteem, Stress Relief
One of my clients was telling me how some of his loved ones were trying to make him feel better by telling him how much worse others had it. He said, “I know they were trying to make me feel better, but that’s a pretty low bar. I might as well go around saying, ‘At...
Oct 3, 2019 | Happiness Fulfillment & Self Esteem
Recently, I decided to take a few weeks off from alcohol. I typically drink three to four glasses of wine a week. Most people would say that isn’t much, but it was starting to feel like too much to me. My energy was low, I didn’t sleep or feel good after I drank, and...
