Is It A Race Or A Journey?

What happened to the joyful journey of enjoying the anticipation of the holidays? Good friends? Good food? Family visits? Thoughtful presents? Sitting and taking in the moments and building memories?

You can easily and immediately begin to solve right now the stress issues of expectations of the holiday

Gifts, Money and Worry

Christmas and the holiday season pretty much demands that we think about giving…it can be costly and intimidating.   Don’t let it be.   Take control of the money, the gift giving and let yourself feel the meaning of giving something that counts…to you and them.   My...

Stop Telling Me What To Do

Geesshh   How many end of 2015 tips and techniques for making 2016 our best year ever do we need to have in our email box? Frankly I am tired of it.  I bet you are too. There is no drawn out way that you have to evaluate your year.  It is the same 4 questions I use...

Start Where You Are

Have you ever wondered how you really got to where you are?  Have you just sat down with yourself and asked “well, self, how in the heck did I really get here”?   And would there be any value in asking that question? When we start to ask questions, we get answers. ...

Get Out Of Your Own Way!!

The holidays had us in the grip of focus for fun, family, food and setting our goals for 2014.  Now that we are 3 weeks in January, how are you doing with the concept of “this year will be different” and your goals? Baby it  is cold outside.  Record snow in the USA. ...

Stuff, Clutter, Prizes and Toss

Since I am moving to Nashville on Saturday, I am dealing with stuff, clutter, prizes and tossing.  Lots of people are out there spending their time  figuring out the best gifts for the holidays; sending cards; having parties and cooking delicious foods.Not me.  I am...

Story of a Loser – Me

Ok, so I’ve not always been good are reducing stress.  In fact, I use to be the Queen of causing my own stress.  And I did not start talking about reducing holiday stress on an annual basis because I was bright enough to come up with these terrific stress reducing...

Ultimate Halloween Stress – Candy and Costumes

Halloween is just 25 days away, an American holiday of costuming and sugar highs.  If you are smart, you have got this date on your calendar.  You probably know the routine of “trick or treating” hours for  your city or town – the hours that kids are encouraged to do...

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