Ancient trees, Awesome Stories

Awesome Stories 206

This week Awesome Stories brings you magic gardens, grace, cosmic perspective, beauty, mastery and love. Magic Gardens This is a wonderful story of a teacher who nurtured her vision to create a place of learning and community in what was once a barren school lot. When asked why she wanted to work at Oakland School,…

11 tips to thrive in 2014

11 Tips to Thrive in 2014

Are you ready to thrive in 2014? With so many people talking about goals, intentions and resolutions, I wanted to offer some tips to not only start the year with a boost of energy, but offer the tools to maintain your progress. From my experience, commitment and process are the keys to achieving our goals.…

What you become

Choice: The Secret Ingredient for Life

Our life is the result of our choices, not our circumstances. We choose our thoughts, feelings and actions. Or else we allow ourselves (another choice) to be carried by the currents of life circumstances with no steering on our part. Choice is our steering. We don’t control life, but we control our direction with our…

3 Steps to Massive Success

Here are my 3 steps to massive success! Just kidding, I don’t have the magic formula, but if I had to pick 3 steps to success, I’d say energize, visualize and act. Gratitude, for what you have, is a great place to start. Building a foundation of good feelings and gratitude is essential to create the life…

Focus

Gratitude and the Art of Life

More and more, I believe that gratitude is the key to satisfaction and happiness in life. And the way out of the rat race to success that most of us are engaged in. Even the spiritualists have hopped on the band wagon, encouraging us to achieve our goals, be happy, live purposefully, achieve enlightenment, nirvana, or Christ consciousness, end hunger,…