Last week we wrote about New Year’s Resolutions and joining the “Top 40,” those who succeed. Today we visit one of the foundations to success: understanding our humanness and accepting our imperfection. We tend to discard our resolutions when we encounter imperfect implementation. One blogger quoted psychologist Janet Polivy regarding the “What the Hell” effect
Back to balance. We have discussed the five dimensions of living a balanced life. A discussion which could not be complete without visiting the notion of defense mechanisms, the coping strategies that aid us in our quest for balance. Properly applied, our defense mechanisms help us live in harmony and like our emotions, they are
We now add the idea of Spiritual Inspiration to the first three elements of living a balanced life: The Physical, The Mental, and the Emotional. In this context, inspiration refers to a time when we were engaged in something that actively lifted us beyond our present circumstances. Most of us can readily think of activities