Everything has value. Everything has worth. A financial, emotional or physical exchange is involved in acquiring anything we want. Nothing is for free. We can check a price tag to learn how much an owner expects for whatever it is that they are offering. We can look elsewhere for someone offering something similar for a … Continue reading The Value Of One →

Decisions made in haste can be regretted. Far more regrettable, however, are decisions that were never made. Choosing the right time is often both impracticable and impossible. Far easier in fact to delay...to wait for the planets to align and for all the ducks to get in a line. Rarely, however, is the time perfect … Continue reading Now, Not Never →

It's only when we are tested that we are either comforted or confronted by the true depth of our feelings or the true strength of our convictions. Until then theory must suffice. But ideas are a long way short of the practicalities of their application and it's within the gap between the two that we … Continue reading Truth In The Testing →

There is no such thing as a perfect, faultless life. Good and bad co-exist. There are challenges and there are rewards. Just as the earth needs both the sunshine and the rain to sustain life, so too do we need a mixture of emotional light and shade. Survival is all about balance but it has … Continue reading Happy Is As Happy Does →

Time is a gift and yet it is a gift that is often under-valued. We spend the time we have finding someone to love us and finding someone to love. It's that need to be part of something greater than ourselves that is our driving force. How we spend our time is a matter of … Continue reading The Clock Is Ticking →

The person we are is the person we choose to be. We can be our own light or we can be our own darkness. We can be our own worst enemy or our own best friend. We decide. The story of our life is the story we write ourselves. It's a mix of good and … Continue reading Decide From The Inside →

There are some things we want to remember...incidents that changed our life in a positive way...individuals who have had a profound effect on the person we are today. At the same time there are some things we prefer not to recall...setbacks and sadness; pain and suffering. The inescapable truth is that we are the product … Continue reading Past, Present And Personal →

Living our best life means coping with our worst moments...again and again. Along the way we pick up skills that help us to make sense of those things that are happening in us, through us and around us. When it comes to psychological survival, what works for one person may not work for another. We … Continue reading Coping Not Hoping →

Change should never be made for nothing more than the sake of change. Swapping the familiar for the uncertain is a serious step to take. The known can be far more comfortable and far less challenging than the unknown. But therein lies a quandary. There can be no growth without change. It takes an alteration … Continue reading What If I Modify? →