I consider myself well-schooled on the subject of love because in order to love someone else, we need to love ourselves, and I do love myself. I have been studying how to be happy and have a good life for many years. I made it my life’s mission to figure out how to do just […]
These are my ideas of what I think we need to do to live a happy life. Live in the present moment. While living in the present moment, there is no past or future. You can control your thoughts, movements, and feelings in the present moment. If you can control those things, you can live […]
Anything we do one time is not going to be done great. We have to keep doing things over and over, and then before you know it, it’s become something easy. The problem arises when we think about what we want to change, do, or be, and fear barges in to start the doubts. Even […]
This idea came to me the other day. I had woken up in a grumpy mood. Most mornings, I wake up and listen to YouTube videos, like this one on how to start your day. But this morning, I didn’t. Instead, I let the present reality, feeling pain from a recent shoulder surgery, get to me. […]
If everything we are, do, and have in our lives is a result of our mindset, I’m a firm believer that we are only as old as we think we are. I coined the phrase yold one day when I was thinking about my age. I thought I’m not old; I’m in between young and […]
How many of us have experienced “ghosting” via text or other means? I have, and I’m not too fond of it. I think it’s a childlike, cowardly way of dealing with human interactions. As adults, we’re supposed to talk about our feelings and issues, but some either don’t care or can’t express what they want, […]
I’m sure everybody has heard the phrase, “Where there’s a will, there’s a way.” I’ve been thinking about that and wondered, can will get you what you want? In other words, if you are passionate about something enough, can you make it happen just with that? I believe it. So, I thought I’d dig deeper […]
I had shoulder surgery on 7/31 to fix a torn tendon. The orthopedic doctor and his wonderful colleagues did a fantastic job fixing my dislocated ankle in 2022, so I had complete faith that repairing a tendon would go well. So far, it’s distressing, but I’m confident I will be okay. I heard from people […]
The word fear has several acronyms: F.E.A.R. – false evidence appearing real F.E.A.R- face everything and rise F.E.A.R – forget everything and run F.E.A.R -fantasized experiences appearing real (Jack Canfield) No matter what the acronym, the gist is the same—what we think is what we feel. Feeling fear can be paralyzing. How we deal with […]
To cook is to perform an act of love—first for yourself, nourishing yourself, and then for others. You can be the worst cook ever, but the effort it took to create something from parts and pieces of edible things is still an act of love. I wanted to learn to cook from my grandmother (Italian/Sicilian) […]