The more time you spend in your discomfort zone, the more your comfort zone will expand. — Robin Sharma The Monkey Trap Are you familiar with the monkey trap? I use to read stories and parables to my kids when they were actually well, kids; they are adults now but they still…

What consumes your mind controls your life. — Anonymous Stopped Dead in Her Tracks Who loves jumping out of bed at 5:00 am? 5:00 am comes really early for me, but never early enough for Luna, my dog. With boundless energy, as soon as I open the door to let her outside, her biggest…

You have to take responsibility for that peace that lives inside of your heart. — TD Jakes The Reality of 2020 Back in the day, raising and homeschooling 4 children and running a family-based business was extremely demanding; although not nearly as challenging and stressful as living life in the reality of 2020. …

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, and hate leads to suffering. — Yoda What is Your Taskmaster? As we look around our world today, it can be overwhelming. People wonder, “Are these the birth pains predicting the end of time?” “Are we going…

Going in one more round, when you don’t think you can, that’s what makes all the difference in your life. — Sylvester Stallone What are some of the things you are doing right now to keep on going, to grow in perseverance, to strengthen your will? Yesterday, I started…

How is your Post Covid19 experience going? For most of the world, we have gone from uncertainty to chaos to more uncertainty and greater chaos. Life feels like it is in a constant state of being under construction. Living in these challenging times, it’s easy to be overwhelmed by…

Once you choose hope, anything is possible — Christopher Reeve When we look back at this difficult time in history, I’d love to say that we chose, as a nation, and as humanity, to cultivate hope during these uncertain times. As a nation and in the world I feel…

“The Greatest Risk is to Risk Nothing at All.” — Leo Buscaglia Risk: Friend or Foe? What’s the first thought that pops into your mind when you think of the word risk? In an unofficial survey of my closest friends, here’s what they said when I posed the same question to them. …

“The secret to change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” — Socrates Horrific Moments in History Where were you when you heard about the planes crashing into the twin towers on September 11? For those of you who are old enough, what…