To make and keep your promise may be the most important habit you nurture. To not keep your promise is to reinforce the habit of failure. How often do you make a promise? A promise could be as simple as I’ll take the trash out after dinner. I’ll do the dishes. I’ll...
“April showers bring May flowers, That is what they say. But if all the showers turned to flowers, We’d have quite a colorful day! ” April is ushering in plenty of showers in the Hudson Valley of upstate New York. While I am someone who actually delights...
Dear God, I’m frustrated. Opps. Sorry. I shouldn’t start our conversation with a complaint. How are You today? Thank YOU for giving me life, breath, eye sight, taste, hearing, touch, smell, a heart that beats, feet and legs that walk, hands that write. You made me...
The holiday blues are common, but we have more control than we think we do. (Anxiety and depression should not be taken lightly. Extreme conditions should be diagnosed and treated by medical professionals.) Have you ever known someone whose presence lit up a room?...
This week’s “spoke” in my Wheels to Wellness summer series is Faith. Special thanks to my friend Brenda Elkins Tricome for being my guest blogger this week and sharing a glimpse of her remarkable and inspiring story of keeping her faith strong in spite of a health...
Is Stuff Getting in the Way of Your Transformation? That was the title of a blog post by Jim King, sports nutritionist and personal trainer, in January 2016. He wrote about the “Wish” person and the “But” person: “I WISH I could lose weight, I...
