Have you ever met someone and wanted to immediately befriend them? Especially on days when you are not feeling so good about life and don’t really have anyone to confide in?

But it’s hard to just step in and say to the other person, “Hey! I know we just met, but we should be friends.”

The reason it is hard to make friends is because we are so untrusting. We always want to believe that people have…

Forget just writing a chapter, I can write a whole book on all the people and things that annoy me. I can provide you with a list from here to Hong Kong of all the things that are nerve-racking in my life.

But I won’t. Instead I will appreciate the gifts that the annoyances bring me, and the many lessons I’ve learned because of them.

The power of the annoyances in your life is that they are…

Most of us define ourselves by our wounds. As a matter of fact, we wear them on our sleeves. We showcase them, marketing them to the whole world- or just to anyone that will listen. And, if we run across a person that doesn’t tread lightly around us, we feel that they are insensitive, incompassionate, uncaring and unsupportive.

Today we should tell ourselves that we have had enough support and need get on with the business of…

Many of us always look to others for approval or reassurance that what we are doing in our lives is right. We will ask our best friend’s opinion about which dress to wear, or our sister’s opinion about which guy to date, or our stylist’s opinion on the best hair cut.

We always give the other person’s opinion the best value without even first considering our own. We become so caught up in what someone else thinks…

It is so easy to look back at life and think, “Wow, life has passed me by. How did I get here? Where did my life go?”

It is so easy to fall into the trap of entertaining thoughts of non-accomplishment that leads to feelings of sadness and regret. Every moment of our lives- from the very minuscule to the very catastrophic- is brought here to help us move forward and to achieve our ultimate goals. Those…

Ever wonder if things are meant to be? …Just read the signs.

If two or more people are repeatedly telling you the same things, then you should probably listen. If you are walking in the mall and you spot that same gorgeous dress in two different stores (and on two different ends of the mall!), then you should probably try it on. If both your husband and your daughter are saying that they’d rather eat out for…

Each day life brings us challenges and situations that we have to face that sometimes takes weeks, months or even years to get past. Have you ever looked back on your life and one day realized you’ve been sitting in that same pain from childhood that you experienced when you were like 2 years old? Then you suddenly realize that you are holding a grudge against someone you knew in the 7th grade? Sometimes we hold grudges…