Tag: self-help writer
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The Bad News Is You’re Discouraged. The Good News is You’re Discouraged!
Tweet When I started blogging, I was in my late twenties. Things were different then. I was energetic and enviously ambitious, even naively so. But time changes things. Your priorities shift. Where relationship and career were my own two motivations in life, now a growing family, my health and owning a home seem to take…
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Guilt. What Is it Good For?
Tweet Absolutely nothing. Okay maybe there are some benefits to guilt. If we didn’t have guilt for wrongdoings, we might be sociopaths, criminals or inhuman. Guilt’s function is to direct us to a higher path. Having said that, I do believe we sometimes allow the G-word to get away with too much. Guilt has no…
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Happy 2013!
Tweet It’s my last post of the year. 2012 was a scary year with lots of unexpected surprises thrown in the mix. My husband and I finally made our move to Hawaii halfway through. I said goodbye to a lot of good friends. And I pushed myself full force into the writing world here. It…
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It Pays to Risk Big: Risky Behavior Not So Risky After All?
Tweet There’s a misconception that risk is bad for you. It’s an old wive’s tale that says a good life is a quiet one. It’s why there are people who don’t travel, who stay unhappily in the same job/relationship for years, and why we never quite live up to our potential. The fear of feeling…
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I Don’t Know What I Want to Be When I Grow Up
Tweet If you found yourself revisiting this question as a grown up, you know how frustrating the process of self-discovery can be. Perhaps, you took the first job you got after college or you simply fell into the career you have now. But it doesn’t fulfill you anymore. It pays the bills, but doesn’t make…
