I Am a Perfectly Imperfect Human Being

I ran across this quote by Jackson Kiddard today and I loved the message of complete self-acceptance as well as the acceptance of others. We are all perfectly imperfect. What if we could just embrace our imperfections as well as those of others? Wouldn’t we be much happier? His full quote reads: “Today I affirm

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One Secret to Finding Happiness: Using Your Strengths

Have you ever received a performance review or prepared an evaluation for others? When I worked in the corporate world, I would not particularly look forward to upcoming performance reviews. It meant spending time writing self-evaluations and as a manager, coming up with various ratings and assessments for people in my group. The whole evaluation

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Create Space for the New by Letting Go of the Past

“The mental and physical space we create by letting go of things that belong in our past gives us…the option to fill the space with something new.”    ~Susan Faye West Dwelling in the past undermines our happiness. Every day I hear from people who are resentful about something that happened to them or about a

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Anticipation Is The Greatest Joy

“Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work’s important, family’s important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You’re cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what’s coming.”  ~Nicholas Sparks   In German, we have a saying: “Vorfreude ist die schönste Freude!” which means “The greatest joy lies in the anticipation.” And isn’t

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