Love has no agenda …

Admit you want it … and you make it feel possible. And when it feels possible, you act in faith. You get what you want. … More

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If you haven’t done what you know you can to improve your relationship, you don’t really know how much it can grow. You don’t really know how much YOU can grow.

You open a whole world of magic by simply doing what you can … one step at a time, beginning with the first one.… More

When you’re not sure what to do, just let love displace fear.

Let truth displace lies. Let go instead of clinging. Trust instead of doubt. Forgive yourself instead of feeling guilty. Accept responsibility instead of being defensive or assigning blame to somebody else. See what you have in common rather than focusing on the differences. Stay present rather than regretting the past or fretting about the future. Choose happiness over self-pity, ego, anger, greed, or control. And choose to play big — instead of small.

Choose as though you cannot fail. You can’t, because love can’t.

Note: Excerpted from my book “Innately Good: Dispelling the Myth That You’re Not”… More

In the midst of this pandemic, excuses may be more assumed than they’ve ever been in your lifetime. That is, unless you survived the stock market crash of 1929; in which case, your age is another convenient excuse.

You can hide behind too old, too young, not enough money or no time, but there is no good excuse.

If there is something you want to do that you are not doing, all of your excuses come down to fear. And if Franklin D. Roosevelt were alive, he’d remind you that, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” He delivered those famous words during his inaugural address in the height of the Depression.

Roosevelt’s gift is to strip us of our excuses regardless of the situation, so that we might face our ultimate fear … and realize that we have nothing to be afraid of.

People didn’t jump off buildings because their estates were devalued; they jumped because they felt like they were devalued.

Following the last recession, a billboard in NYC read, “Recession 101: Self-worth beats net-worth.”

Want to know how you’re doing on self-worth? With “1” indicating that you strongly disagree and “5” indicating that you strongly agree, what number (1-5) best describes your position on Roosevelt’s statement, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself”?… More