Last week, picking up my five-year-old from school, he said: “My dream is that all people stop throwing trash in the ocean and use a trash can instead.”
It was Martin Luther King Day and they had hear...
Steps to Success: Life is the Metaphor you Make it
Life is like a pomegranate.
My favourite winter fruit salad (because it is like a bowl of sunshine), calls for fresh pomegranates currently in seaso...
Steps to Success
When is being red in the face, gasping for breath with an aching gut, a good thing?
When you are laughing.
That wholehearted, shoulder-shaking, belly laugh that I’m hazarding a guess...
The other day I happened upon a gardening blog that started something like this: “As we enter the shortest days of the cold, wet season, it’s a good time not to garden.
“Take a break to rest and refle...
I got home the other night after a frenzied bout of late-night shopping. I’d cursed over passing up the only available parking spot in hopes of getting closer, then forgot to eat as I rushed about, fr...
Last week I outlined the basic theory of Human Needs Psychology: that we all have six fundamental emotional needs and that we will find either positive or negative ways to ensure these needs are met. ...
Do you ever wonder why people do the things they do? Any given situation might elicit myriad responses depending on who is reacting to it. One person might shout, another might crumple up and cry and ...
Sometimes, bad things happen to good people … they happen to all people. There are those occasions when things just don’t go our way, work out as we hoped or planned.
We get bad news or others do or s...
Oops!
… A mistake.
Be it an erroneous fact or bad judgment call, we got it wrong, we messed up, we let someone down, if only ourselves. I’ve heard it claimed that statistically, an average of 70 perce...
Steps to Success:
The red shoes or the blue shoes … mmmm. Decisions, decisions.
We are faced with a multitude of them every day, ranging from the banal to the life-changing from footwear to what kin...
