If You’re Happy and You Know It

happygirl If You’re Happy and You Know It

Do you recognize your own happiness?

Many people go through life never really appreciating their happiness.  They never stop and relish in enjoyable moments.  This is really tragic.

We hurry to the next thing.  We press on towards higher achievement.  We continually seek more, but when do we just stop and celebrate our happiness?

This lack of recognizing our own well-being and contentment is one of the reasons that we

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Better Boundaries, Better Lives

crookedfence Better Boundaries, Better LivesThis is a guest post by Michelle Barber.

A friend of mine was having her phone line worked on over the weekend. So, at 9:00 pm on a Friday night, when I saw an ad for an upcoming concert, I called her office number fully expecting to leave a voicemail.

Instead, she picked up the phone. I asked her what in the world she was doing at work that late

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Calling All Guest Bloggers: I Need Articles

studentlaptop Calling All Guest Bloggers: I Need Articles Want to write for this site?

I need people like you to write articles for my site while I work on a special project.  This is open to anyone.

Why would you want to do this?  Because you can get some great exposure for your blog, website, idea, passion or hobby by simply writing about it here.

Many others have gone before you and found this to be

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Happy Thanksgiving: Give Yourself the Gift of Gratitude

thanksgivingturkey Happy Thanksgiving: Give Yourself the Gift of Gratitude What do you have to be thankful for this year?

Thanksgiving is a day set aside to help us reflect on all that we have to be grateful for in our lives.

It is incredibly easy to get bogged down in all the negative news flying around on the Internet and on the evening news, but today we need to stop and remind ourselves of the good things in our …

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Life Is Too Short: A Warning to Get Your Act Together

beautifullake Life Is Too Short: A Warning to Get Your Act TogetherHave you faced just how short life really is?

The reality of this came crashing in on me again recently and along with it I thought, “I’ve got to get my act together.”

Life is simply too short to keep holding on to some things.  More often than not, we hurt ourselves by failing to change.

We don’t even like hearing these messages never mind actually embracing them. 

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Be More Persuasive: 5 Scientifically Proven Methods

persuasive Be More Persuasive: 5 Scientifically Proven Methods Want to be more persuasive?

Increasing your persuasiveness by even a small amount can have a big impact on your life.  After all, the margin between winning and losing is usually just the difference in doing a few small things a little better than your competition.

What would your life be like if you were just 20% more persuasive?

The results could be impressive.

Therefore, it is important that we …

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Six Family Rituals That Are Priceless

lovingfamily Six Family Rituals That Are Priceless What family rituals do you value the most?

Establishing the right family rituals can do wonders for your togetherness and growth. 

A family ritual is simply something that you all love doing together that becomes a traditional habit for you.  A lot of family rituals involve the holidays, but this is not a necessity.

I love the example that Tsh offers in The Importance of Family Rituals over at Simple

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