Author: adanaher

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. Rumi If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun! Katherine Hepburn I am looking out my window and it is a bright, sunny day- one of those days when you want to be outside doing anything! Sunshine in … Continue reading Squeeze the Day!*

Chance favours the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time….We just have to be open for business. Anne Lamott from the book: Help, Thanks, Wow I have a friend who leads an interesting life. She travels, has a wide range of friends and seems to be able to … Continue reading Paying Attention

I'm going to make this time my own.... From the song "Time" by Chantal Kreviazuk It's not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is what are we busy about? Henry David Thoreau This past week I wondered, as I have many times before, where the time went. I had great intentions of getting … Continue reading An Abundance of Time

Sweet dreams are made of these... Annie Lennox A common bit of conversation I have had with people over the years relates to the amount and quality of sleep we get each night. The usual response is that we don’t get enough and/or the sleep we do get is of dubious quality. One time, I … Continue reading Sleep On It…

  Never explain, never retract, never apologize. Just get the thing done and let them howl. Nellie McClung You can't move mountains by whispering at them. Pink Sooner or later, when we begin to act in our own best interests, we are likely to encounter push back. It is often the small things that trigger … Continue reading Dealing with Push back

...this path, this road that is one perfect straight line even if it goes around the world through heat and fog and rain and snow and it's my life I keep thinking. It's my life. Deborah Keenen, from "Small History" Life is what happens when we're busy making other plans. John Lennon A number of … Continue reading Interruptions: Wandering Off Course

Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching and live like it's heaven on earth. Attributed to many including Mark Twain, Satchel Paige, and William Purkey The truth is that play seems to be one of the most advanced methods nature has invented to allow a complex … Continue reading Play and Have Fun!

You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. Above all, be the heroine in your own life... ~ Nora Ephron February 19, 2016 At some point in our lives, we realize we have an opportunity to chart a new course; do things differently; head out … Continue reading Making a Start…

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. ~ Lewis Carroll Ninety percent of success is just showing up. ~ Attributed to Woody Allan February 12, 2016 One of my dreams is to write, but so many times it feels like a daunting undertaking. I will be in the shower or on … Continue reading Unleashing Creativity

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. ~ T.S Eliot (Taken from William Bridges’ book, Transitions) “...what holds many people back is the inability to give up the hope for a better past.” ~ Irvin D. Yalom (paraphrased) from a CBC interview, 2015 … Continue reading Letting Go