Be Well
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It’s Like a Treasure Map to the Next Best You! Affirmations can be an easy first step to the life you desire. A map to your next best self!Are you thinking you tried them and they never worked for you. It might be true, but I think it’s because they weren’t customized to your special…
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Really what I’m writing about is making plans for after retirement, I know for me, I’ve been on a countdown to retirement and although I have BIG plans for when I no longer have to work, I hadn’t really made plans as to what retirement would look like and feel like for me. I’m not…
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In the book “Will Grayson, Will Grayson” by John Green and David Levithan, one of the Wills asks Jane (whom he likes) to agree to be completely honest with each other and not worry about feelings for 10 minutes and then to go back to “normal.” I want you to do the same thing–I’m doing…
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I used to send out these little observations as day brighteners, I called them Joy Bubbles. And I loved it when someone would reply and tell me the joy bubble had, indeed, brightened their day, because when their day was brightened mine was too. It made me happy. Is that weird? No. And here’s some…
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I am feeling messy and not ready and surprisingly heartbroken. Or, maybe the heartbreak feeling is not so surprising, because I’ve been down this road before: State Highway of Grief. I was looking through old journals because I have a habit of writing ideas in random journals and then an even better, much more ingrained…
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“Oh, good grief!” When I was younger my mom (and Charlie Brown) would say this a lot, it expressed much frustration and possibly the end of any kind of patience. In other words, it was not a good thing to hear these words. Now, I think of those words: “good grief” and have a new…
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I’m pretty sure when people think of “happy” people they don’t necessarily see them as courageous or strong, and yet, more than likely, they are happy because they understand how not to be crushed under the weight of fear and adversity. I remember being in a management class and we were talking about adversity and how to…
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I was taking a walk and thinking about all the things I was doing and wondering if I was on the right path, and as I walked I said, “Okay God, show me a sign that I’m on the right path…show me a fox on my walk.” And then I immediately said to myself, you can’t…
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Are you afraid of how great the thing you want to do would be if you actually did it? Does just thinking about it scare you? Aren’t we hilarious–oooh, I’d like to do that, I think I might even be great at that…or, you know, maybe okay at it…I mean, I wouldn’t even know how…
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Hey! Are you allowing your life to simply happen? Like not even an auto-pilot life, but more like a ricocheting life–ping-ponging around as things hit. How’s that working for you? Not too swell, right? It sure the heck wasn’t working for me! I mean, I wanted to be moving forward, making improvements, not writing the same…
Amy Kennedy The Creative Crone 