While life doesn’t contain a restart shortcut, there are certain things that can help us refresh and recalibrate when we feel sluggish, have trouble completing a task, or are discombobulated in one way or another.
If you haven’t yet, it’s worth checking out the used-clothing shops in your area. Here are five good reasons why.
Given the reality that many demands for time are placed on teenagers, and the fact that Sundays are viewed by the vast majority of people as a day like any other day, helping our teens to keep the third commandment might seem like a pie in the sky idea. While overhauling our culture may not be possible, the good news is that, with some creativity, honoring the sabbath still is.
We can prime ourselves to notice the goodness in creation by keeping the goodness at the front of our minds, by telling ourselves that it exists and calling attention to it when it passes through our day.
Believing that even a good thing can always be made better (should we frost those brownies? YES), I embrace these three rituals that take my reading to the next level of enjoyment, education and meaning.
Keeping the end of things in mind moves me to treasure — and make the most of — the present.
Good hospitality, rather than being an end in itself, is a vehicle for connection and a tool we can use to show family, friends, acquaintances, and even strangers love and respect. There certainly isn’t a formula for it, but there are concrete actions we can take that make those abstract ideas of openness, warmth and attention a reality.
It turns out that fitness instructors are fountains of wisdom that apply to life outside the gym.
This writing exercise forces me to articulate my main idea and gets me to think about the reason why my idea matters to me, and why it should matter to others.
We can never know what we are missing out on until we give it a try, and sometimes we just need a little push to try something new.
Teresa Coda 