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Here’s how to continue your success or reinvent yourself, in the New Year (or anytime). No matter what is going on in your life or what happened last year, you can have a wonderful life in 2018! It starts with the following:
Look at what’s working in your life and continue doing it. You can even expand on what’s been successful for you, but don’t change what is already working.
Look at what isn’t working in your life,…..In this Holiday Season 2017, and into the New Year 2018, it is important for us to remember what true joy is, and is not. It is so easy to get caught up in the commercialism. Following is my humble list I use as a reminder to myself of what really gives us joy. True joy is found in:
giving your time to making someone happy giving your time to a charity that needs people to carry out their work giving a smile, or kind…..
Diane has written articles, guest posts, and given interviews for the following businesses:
2017:
Crain’s, at www.crain.com Interview topic: “If I Knew Then, What I Know Now in Business”
Ecophiles, Guest post: “Adventure and Escape–Finding Peace and Joy in the Pacific Northwest”
Central Valley Business Times, at www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com Interview topic: “Corporate Trainer Trades in the Boardroom for the Great Outdoors, Teaches Others to Lower Stress”
Northwest Prime Time Magazine, at www.NorthwestPrimeTime.com Interview topic: “The Best Places to Retire in…..
Happiness is:
taking a break in the morning, having tea with my husband as he drinks his coffee, and we watch the deer in our yard visiting Meerkerk Gardens with mom walking our dog, Sabre, along a secret road winding through old growth forests at South Whidbey State Park playing gin rummy with our friends and being silly going to the dog park with Sabre and watching him play with all the dogs, large and small watching a…..
In order to manage stress, you must make time for yourself. That means you must be your number one priority above all other people; that includes family and friends! (God is #1, you are #2). The most stressed out people don’t have their priorities straight. I had failed at that for many years. Why, because women, in particular, are taught to put others first. We are the caregivers and nurturers. We give birth, feed and care for our children, partners,…..
Once you know what/who triggers your stress, you can write down a plan to respond in a new way when stress hits you. Remember, people and situations won’t change until you change; and people may not change even if you change; but you can change: how you respond, how you feel, and how you go forward, regardless of what others do.
For example, I know my husband loves science fiction movies and auto racing on TV, and he likes the…..