Festive parties, spectacular light shows, delicious holiday food and sweet Christmas music interlaced with extra doses of joy are tasty...

Hope. I hope this finds you doing well. I hope so. I hope to. . . There is something that hangs in the air when we use this word hope. It...

In the Christmas season, there is much talk about peace — messages like: Peace on Earth; World Peace; May Your Year be Filled with Peace...

I’m caught in a cycle. Every morning I tell myself I’m going to accomplish THE THING. You know the one, the thing that I’ve been pushing...

Last night, I met a three week old baby. Baby’s are so sweet and cuddly. As I was driving home it struck me all over again how utterly...

50,000 times a day we talk to ourselves, according to researchers. Sadly, 80% of it is negative — I shouldn’t have said that . . . She...

On my 50 birthday I awoke jobless, homeless, alone for the first time in 30 years and able to say "I'm better than I should be." I was...

"Please stop. That’s too much. I really can’t handle any more affirmation. Those powerful, positive statements you are making about me...

A passionate crowd of well-wishers gathered outside a farmhouse in Maryland in September 1884. They had come to approve the nomination of...

I crawled into Downtown Fort Worth at peak rush hour this morning. With this crawl, came two options: dread or hope. With the push of a...

Many decades ago I planned my day out — every 15 minutes. I was ecstatic about the fact that I knew what I would be doing every minute of...

A woman born in 1880 becoming a world-famous speaker and author, traveling to over 40 countries, being awarded the Presidential Medal of...

We are all writing our own story — living our autobiographies. An author writing a novel starts with a rough idea, progresses to an...

“I have participated in every bad decision I’ve ever made. I’ve talked myself out of exercising and into dessert. I’ve been present at...

Want to get smaller? Maybe around the waist but not necessarily in the conference room, a vital conversation, or your next presentation....

Junior High seemed daunting, too much, too different, too foreign. I didn’t want to go. I drilled my sister, a year ahead of me in...

What if failure is not really failure at all, but redirection? When you walk through the parking lot and trip on the way to your car, do...

When we find ourselves stuck and wondering what we need to do with our lives, careers, businesses, ideas, we might be asking the wrong...

The day the counselor suggested I was carrying around some shame, I protested, “That’s not even possible. I grew up in a healthy, solid,...

The big lie: You have to have more points. This is the message we are always hearing, you need more — more money, more help, more time....