November 2010 Happiness Project: Attitude Adjustment

Attitude is everything.  And I firmly believe that life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it. This month’s happiness project focus is on ATTITUDE.  Let that marinate for a minute. How does your attitude affect your happiness? Attitude is defined as your manner or disposition, but also describes [...]

The Sound of Silence: I Dare You to Give it a Try

Silence is the relative or total lack of audible sound. By analogy, the word silence may also refer to any absence of communication, even in media other than speech. Silence is also used as total communication, in reference to non verbal communication and spiritual connection. Okay so like many of you I saw the new [...]

Black Girls Lost

Casey Gane-McCalla of NewsOne writes a poignant post on black girls lost, most notably Montana Fishburne and Maia Campbell.  Of particular note: Both Maia and Montana are deeply troubled individuals. Rather than getting the help they need, they’re now surrounded by men who do nothing but prey. Many in urban culture sadly choose to glorify [...]

August 2010 Happiness Project: Have FUN!

Gretchen Rubin’s Happiness Project encourages us all to focus on FUN for the month of August. With all that we have going on in our lives, the economy, and the recent jobless numbers, it is sometimes difficult to focus on fun. The drudgery of the daily grind and trying to “get by” make it difficult [...]

Music and Mental Health

Music has always been soothing to my soul.  No matter the tribulation, task, or terribleness, music was my way to power through the pain – whether physical or mental.  Music allowed me refuge and permission to let out whatever emotions were bottled up inside.  Suffice it to say, music has a calming effect that prevents [...]

Getting Unstuck

Getting Unstuck Do you ever feel like your life is in neutral, neither gaining or losing ground? But you can’t really complain given there are many who would be happy to be on your position. “Life is good for you,” they say. But it feels anything but good. In fact, it feels like the same [...]

June Happiness Project – Order (Mom, Are You Listening?)

This month’s focus is on ORDER.  I am a natural creature of habit and order is important to me.  So I can easily identify on how order in one’s life contributes to a sense of well-being and cultivates happiness. When I think order, I immediately think of clutter.  My mother has a habit of holding [...]

Why Do You Blog?

I get lots of questions like this from friends and strangers. They say, “you have a full time career, why are you blogging?” My responses vary depending on the audience. In my most honest and pure moments I admit that it’s cheaper than therapy. Life isn’t easy.  And it doesn’t come with an instruction manual.  My [...]

Little Girls Lost

When I heard about the now infamous 7 year olds mimmicking Beyonce’s Single Ladies video I shook my head in frustration. The parents just don’t get it. One thing you can never get back is your youth. And as a young girl, there is a delicious slice of life when all you care about are [...]

What are You Passionate About?

That’s a question I ask would be suitors. It’s more illustrative than “where do you work?” You find out more about a person and less about how they pay the mortgage. Me? I believe that information is power. And my personal goal is to learn as much as I can and share that knowledge with [...]

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