I have arrived!!!! Or have I? What does that even mean? I don't know either. However, what I do know is that I have officially been 40 for 22 days now. I have reflected on many lessons I have learned up to this point in life, and now I am contemplating what's next. I have been asked, "How do you feel being 40?" At first, my immediate response was absolutely nothing feels different. Well, as a few days have passed, something does feel different. I have realized that I spent mo

There are many times I have been asked the question, “Were you born this way? You are always so positive.” I smile and quickly say, “No.” It takes work to re-train our brain. I like to call the process the “Catch and Shift” method. Many of my coaching clients have heard me use that term over and over again. I have been using this technique for about 10 years, and it has changed my life. I think different, and see life from a filter of gratitude and seeing beauty in everything

Every day I read something in one of my devotions about the art of #gratitude or the attitude of gratitude. And every day, I find at least 5 things in my life where I express how #grateful to have it in my life. However, a few months back I had something come to me: Why is it that we can be grateful for all the things we have and can do, yet rarely do I hear people actually praise their bodies or themselves more specifically for things they have done or accomplished that day?