Why Do We Make It About Them?

When someone is rude, mean or otherwise yucky towards us, I know it’s easy to take that personally, but we know better than to make it about us. Hope you’ll re-read my last post if you need a little booster regarding this topic. Bottom line is this: how people treat us is about them, not […]

Why Do We Make It About Us?

The salesperson taking my money for the boots I was buying could not have been more rude. She never once looked at me and rolled her eyes as I dropped one of the boots out of the box while putting them on the counter. She ripped the top off of the box as she checked […]

Are You Living On Auto-Pilot?

I’ve never seen the Auto-Pilot button inside of an airplane, but I know that pilots have access to them in some aircraft. Do you have an Auto-Pilot button when it comes to your life? Take a look at the video below and let me know what you think. Surprise, surprise, I have an opinion on […]

Everything Makes Me More

I really do try to live with an “everything makes me more” approach to life. You know that approach, right? It’s the cousin of “what doesn’t kill me, makes me stronger,” and the in-law to “sh#t happens, deal with it.” There’s nothing wrong with those other two, but I prefer “everything makes me more” because, […]

Removing All That Isn’t You

Anne Lamott, a brilliant person and writer, wrote an article for O Magazine a few years ago and talked about how to become the person you were meant to be. Something she said in the article has stuck with me through the years. She said, “To become the person you were meant to be, first, […]