Help Others – Tell Your Story

One of the single most important things that I have learned since writing my very first blog is that by telling my story, I am helping other people who have been or currently are in the same circumstances that I have experienced.  I have also learned that once other people read or heard your story [...]

Happy Anniversary to Me

Next Friday, January 22nd, will mark the 2nd anniversary of my writing this weekly blog.  Now while to many this may not seem to be any big accomplishment, it truly is a major milestone for me.  The main reason for that is that I came to this task kicking and screaming, in my own way.  [...]

A Fabulous New Year

As I started preparations this morning for the return to work tomorrow for the first time in the New Year, I realized that I felt totally different than any time in my memory.  Now I have never been a big fan of New Year’s celebrations and the belief that the beginning of a new year [...]

I Won’t Settle for Being Mediocre

One day this past week, one of my colleagues and I were discussing how so many of the people that we know just show up for work, do as little as possible, don’t care if they finish their assignments on time and are the first ones out the door at quitting time.  If their supervisors [...]

No Free Government Handouts

I have recently been chatting online with a very inspiring woman who wrote to me the following sentences in her second post – “We’ve got to bring love & joy to this life, and pass it on to others! All we can do is encourage others with positive ness – we ARE Survivors, and now [...]