Personal Growth
Personal Growth
The power of gratitude in creating a joyful life
Why is incorporating a practice of gratitude into our every day life so important? Psychology research has shown that having a gratitude practice can increase our happiness, improve health and well-being, strengthen our ability to deal with adversity, and even enhance...
Growth and Gratitude Journal
This month I launched the Growth and Gratitude Journal: a tool to focus on growth and gratitude in just a few minutes a day. I created it partially because I was looking for a journal like this, and could not find one; but also people who purchased my book “Meaningful...
Comparison is the thief of joy
This quote is attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, however, with the rise of social media it is probably even more relevant today. With curated feed and many only showing the best moments of their lives, it makes the comparison...
Recharging your soul
In delving into the subject of rejuvenating our souls to prepare a presentation for our weekly meaningful conversations group, I was pleasantly reassured by the wealth of tools we have available to us, to keep our minds and spirits energized, joyful, and ready to...
What does it mean to live a life of intention?
For me the answer to this question is very interconnected with my faith and what I believe the purpose of life to be—our conscious striving to develop virtues in ourselves (for example, those of being loving and kind, honest and trustworthy) and to be of service to...
I wrote a book!
I have two main passions in life—raising and educating my children to the best of my ability, and writing—and this book is a joining of those two passions! They say it takes 3 months to successfully develop a habit, with this in mind I wrote “Meaningful Conversations...
Love: the ultimate agent of social change
In a post a while back I wrote that “love is the ultimate agent of social change”, and more recently, while preparing a program for our weekly devotional on the topic of love, I reflected on this quote from the Universal House of Justice: “Ultimately, the power to...
The three questions I ask myself every day
~Love. Faith. Serve.~ I have a daily practice (usually for me before my evening prayers) of reflecting on how my day went, and part of that reflection is to ask myself these three questions: did I show love? Was my faith central in my heart and decision-making? Was I...
Meditation and learning to meditate
Given the growing wealth of scientific evidence on the benefits of meditation and the fact that it is an important spiritual practice of my Faith, it is a skill I have been working to develop and improve for a large portion of my life. But during the coronavirus...