Why I Don’t Care What You Think About Me

For as long as I can remember, my goal seemed to be pleasing everyone else. Whether it was my parents, siblings, friends, teachers, significant others or bosses, I felt an unexplainable need to satisfy them by doing everything that they wanted me to do, in the way that they wanted me to do it and [...]

What Did You Do for Yourself Today

As most of us find ourselves trying to deal with the current economic issues that have enveloped our lives, it has become necessary for us to take on more work and responsibilities. It doesn’t matter where we work (at home or outside of the home), the influences currently governing our lives have created more stress [...]

Originality

I suppose my most recent shopping expedition is the catalyst for my current musings regarding originality.  I was searching for a new black blouse, a very simple item in my mind.  However, after looking at literally thousands of offerings over the last several months on so many different websites and searching the local stores, I [...]

What Do You Think of Yourself?

I suppose that I have been watching way too much “reality” television but the one thing that I find myself doing is trying to figure out what would motivate a person to put themselves in a position to make a fool of himself or herself.  I realize that for many, it is a matter of [...]

Embrace Your Worth

I had a couple of very interesting encounters this week with some associates that started me thinking about how we fear the future because we don’t stop to think about all of the positive things that we are and all of the accomplishments we have already achieved.  In one case, a woman is afraid to [...]

A 12-Year-Old and Valentine’s Day

In last week’s blog, I requested that you share your stories with me so that I could share them with others as a way of letting everyone know that regardless of what you have lived in your life, there are others who have shared the same experience.  In the midst of all of the stories [...]