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Today I took my car in for it’s annual spring-cleaning. I made myself a promise that when I bought this vehicle new I would go twice a year and have it shampooed and cleaned so it felt like it just came off the lot! I am planning to keep this one for a good long time and I want to enjoy it too. We spend a lot of time in our vehicle when we are travelling and having it clean and free from clutter makes all the difference in the world in how we enjoy our trip. When I stopped…

I sit. I stare at a blank page. I want to write a blog but nothing is coming. The more I focus on nothing coming, the more I get nothing. It is time to change my attitude and know that I can write this blog. Most of the time we are limited by our thinking. I was talking with someone recently that every time she has to meet with a certain person she braces herself for the worst thing that could happen.  Of course, there is always trouble. I asked her what would happen if you expected the best conversation…

There was a time in my life that if someone had suggested to me that I would be involved in a public speaking career, I would have told them that this would be impossible.  There was no way I was going to speak in  public! And then it happened! I accepted a position as a nurse to work in what was then called Reproductive Health. After about a month into the job, we were told that we had our first speaking engagement. My heart nearly jumped out of my chest! You see, I never, ever saw myself as a public…

Today is the birth date of the late Dr. Willam Glasser, world -renowned psychiatrist who believed in working with people to develop better relationships. I am honoring him today by speaking into some of the things I have learned from him. First, I met him and his work in the mid 1980’s when I was working with youth and I wanted to find some tools to help the youth who seemed to have so many problems. Little did I know that when I studied his ideas that it would have such a profound effect on me! He taught me that…