Bad things happen to good people. Life isn't fair and it isn't easy. There are thousands of clichéd statements that help us understand that things can be tough sometimes. Life gets hard from any number of things, and it is most often things that are out of our control or a result of our own bad decisions. Regardless of how you enter into tough times, it is so important ...Read More

I love feeling happy. I think we all do, and if I'm not happy, I want to figure out how to be happy now! On this journey of working hard and going forth with the best attitude, I learned we have the power to choose happiness. Some days it is eeasier than others, but you can work with with what you're grateful for having to turn the frown ...Read More

People do things you don't like all the time. Look at politics and how people argue and try to change other's opinions to their own. Disagreeing on a decision over which you are not the decision maker causes more arguments than it's worth. It's common for someone to disagree with your decisions. In general, I think we seek to make the best decisions for our lives, and everyone ...Read More

Are you a worrywart? I know we all have times of feeling troubled and worrying about life's circumstances. People get sick unexpectedly, the economy crumbles, and relationships struggle for a number of reason. It's normal to worry about those things. Excessive worrying will be damaging to you and others around you.  When I think about how to stop worrying, I realize how many unnecessary problems we create for ...Read More

You have a lot of potential. You know it and I know it. Sometimes you don't let yourself believe that you know it. We have big dreams and goals, and we talk ourselves down off that dream because those dreams are realized for other people, not for us. But, that's not true is it? You know it and I do, too? Although we know we have the potential ...Read More

Now that the year is coming to a close, I like to reflect on the goals and resolutions I set out for myself at the beginning of the year. I took a look and was, again, surprised at the power of setting  the intent of accomplishing something. I was able to accomplish every one of my goals without pulling out the list each day and checking off activities. ...Read More

Who hasn't struggled with the control issue from time to time? Women in particular are notorious for being control freaks, maybe it's our uncanny ability to multi-task that lends to being controlling.  I remember a time in life when I was fresh out of college and scared to death to be out on my own. The only way to keep order in life was to try to control ...Read More

This Thursday, March 17, 2011, from 7:00-8:00 PM Central Time, I will be presenting Views from the 13th Floor Conversations with My Mentor at Dallas' Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church. The event is sponsoring several of the church community's published authors in effort to support each one another. I will be presenting with three other authors on a varying array of subjects from business to spirituality. As part of ...Read More

I just finished a memory course at Southern Methodist University. The class was all about the lively mind and techniques to engage the right-brain and left-brain simultaneously in order to skip short-term memory and move straight to long-term memory. What we learned was quite fascinating, but before we were able to start learning memory tricks, our professor had us get comfortable with forgetting. She had us say to ...Read More

Ever since I published Views From the 13th Floor: Conversations with My Mentor and started penning this blog, people have been interested in learning a little more about me. To answer the questions, I thought I'd publish this post with a little more information. Today I live in Dallas, Texas. I've been in Dallas ever since I graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Bachelors of Humanities and ...Read More