Hawaii Here I Come!

Yes, a well deserved break to ponder the meaning of life and all it’s intricacies.
I’ll be back on the 4th of July.
Have a wonderful week!

How to Love Doing Anything!

Sometimes it’s difficult to motivate yourself. I mean, let’s face it. Some tasks are just not that thrilling no matter which way you look at it.
Especially if they are what I call drudge work. Doing the books at the end of the month comes to the forefront of my mind. Sure it appeals to my […]

How I’ll Get Motivated Again

Sometimes I wonder why the heck I write this stuff.  I’m no expert, I have no degrees and at times, I can be bloody boring.
Sure, I drank and drugged for years, lived life as a quasi-bad ass and then straightened up my act.
Sure I quit every bad habit I’ve had, and now live a life […]

Living Larger vs. Just Taking Up Space

I decided this week that enough was enough!
I think it may have had something to do with writing the article about igniting one’s passion but something has been stirred.
Many of you may not know it (or care for that matter) but I’m pretty shy. That even shocks me but I know it to be true. […]

How to Get the Attitude of Gratitude

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Denis Waitley
I was going to write an entirely different post today and in fact had it started last Thursday before life got in the way.
Then, as I lay sleeping, a different post […]

7 Surefire Ways to Ignite your Passion

If you recall, I wrote a post the other day about my lack of motivation.  I then decided that what I needed to do was a post about passion and how to find it. I thought perhaps I’d find mine again along the way.
Well dang it all if it didn’t work and a little sooner […]

Motivation (or the lack thereof)

Sometimes I could just slap myself upside the head. And then some.
By all rights, this weekend should have been a pretty good one.
Saturday morning I measured my waistline and found that I lost 1 1/2 inches in the last two weeks via my new exercise/diet regimen. Some of that is probably water as this is […]

6 Secrets to Successful Weight Loss

Most everybody wants to know the secret to successful weight loss. I’ve been up to 200 lbs. and taken it off twice in my life.
So, while I’m not a doctor (who you should check with before doing any diet and exercise program) I do know how to lose weight. And after I quit smoking […]

How to Stop Playing the Blame Game

The fourth installment in the series of How to Get the Alcoholic Advantage.
Before I had my frontal lobotomy (read: got sober and did a lot of work on myself), one of my favorite coping mechanisms was to blame. Maybe it was my all time favorite, I can’t remember. Those brain cells are dead and gone […]

How You can Call it Curtains on Drama

In part 3 of the series How to Get the Alcoholic Advantage, we look at drama and how it can have you acting off balance.
The Opening Act
I closed my eyes and rubbed my forehead as I listened to him drone on. Would he ever stop? My stomach was starting to knot up at the intensity […]