For many of us, lessons about the importance of posture began in childhood. Our parents may have urged us to “stand up straight,” or a relative might have tried to balance a book on our heads to get us to stop slouching. While we may have found their comments intrusive as kids, now as adults, we know that good posture enhances how we look and how we feel about ourselves. Here are nine ways to improve...
When one of my friends turned 50 and was still single (after a few bad relationships and divorce) she said "That’s it. I am destined to be single for the rest of my life, so I better start loving myself. I’m all I got." - Getting close to that age, and single myself, was I destined to be single for the rest of my life? I reacted very intensely to her, in saying “No, don’t you dare give up, there is...
When you’re stuck and can’t find a solution to your problem, you can stimulate your brain to come up with solutions by simply making a choice – a choice to believe there is a solution somewhere nearby - waiting to be discovered. Belief determines what we see and don’t see, in part, because it affects where we are willing to look or not look for solutions. One particular Friday morning, I was getting...