Strength is a mind game. Sometimes life gets to use through various challenges. Difficult times aren't fun and they grow you as a person. In the end, you may d iscover that your power is from within. Even though life circumstances can be stronger than you, it doesn't mean you will be smothered beneath them. We all encounter problems like health issues, job loss, financial trouble, and the ...Read More

Challenges don't always have to end in a dark place. They can often have many benefits and set you up for more.   (more…)

How does the old saying go? "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade." It's kind of hard to taste the lemonade while you're holding a bag of lemons though. Say you take your lemons, wash them, cut them, squeeze them and add sugar and water to sweeten the lemon juice. After all of the labor, you have lemonade. The same goes for the pot of gold at the ...Read More

It's happened to me plenty of times. I guess it's a more common occurrence in writers, thus the popular term "writer's block." When I was in graduate school, I'd work on projects in my marketing and finance classes. As we were presented with projects, I would think and struggle and come up with absolutely nothing creative or interesting. That still happens today as I try to create meaningful ...Read More

How do you deal with the challenges in life? How do you see a goal through to the end? In other words, how do you persevere?  I can't understand perseverance while I'm in the moment, but when I look back, I can see how I persevered through and to the other side of something. Every time I've become a better person and learned things I wouldn't give back. ...Read More