2014: Dare to be Different This Year

As the New Year looms before us, many among us will feel compelled to make New Year’s resolutions, just as we have likely done in the past. Have you ever wondered why we do this? How exactly did the practice of resolving before the start of every New Year come into being? And, why do we keep making resolutions, many times the same ones, year in and year out? Why, too, is it that we just stop at some point, generally early in the year, honoring those resolutions? What if we changed from making resolutions to articulating affirmations? Read more »

January Needs A New First Name

I have decided that January needs a new first name. I don’t remember it ever being my favorite month, but there must have been one because my daughter was born in January many years ago. That would have been a joyful January, and that is the name I shall return to the month. Read more »