This is a really good article. I especially like the tips at the end/ I’ve summarized a few but it is really worth reading the whole thing! Here is the link: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/10/get-rid-of-everything/543384/ And a special thanks to a wonderful person that sent it to me. Please keep sharing articles like this. In terms of choosing a place to live, people who live near water—whether it’s a lake or river or an ocean—are about 10 percent more likely to be happy than people who don’t. And people who live in medium-sized cities are more likely to be happy than the anonymity of a big city or perhaps the too in-your-face, limited-possibility environment of a tiny town. You’re more likely to be happy if your house has a sidewalk, and if you live in a bikeable place. Financial security is also, obviously, huge. It really does deliver more happiness over time than most anything that money can be spent on—after your needs are taken care of and you maybe treat yourself occasionally. If you have money left over, …

Stretching. I never do enough of it! My first goal this week, use a tennis ball (or I have a ball that is slightly smaller) and place one foot like you are standing on it. You may need a wall to hold onto and balance. Move your foot around on it and roll it out. Press down onto the ball as you move your foot around. It hurts but works! miraculously I can touch my toes so much easier! My brother taught me this trick. Second goal I am trying to use the foam roller each day for 4-5 minutes each morning. If you don’t have a foam roller, highly advice buying one. You can check out all sorts of stretches online. I have a few go-to for my hips and back. But there are a ton of ways to use it and you can get lots of tips by just simply googling foam roller stretching. Third goal, every hour not only am I going to try to do a lap around my office or …

As we all finish up our Thanksgiving weekends and head into another week of work I think it is a great time to reflect. Reflect with gratitude on what we have. There is someone who is less fortune than you this evening. So regardless of what is going in your life tonight, be thankful for what you have. If the holidays are hard due to a loss or memory, be thankful it is a memory and you aren’t going through that intense pain this year. And be thankful for the positive memories you have had instead. Be thankful you are alive to make more of those positive memories and to heal. If this year is the hardest of your life, be thankful you are making it through and trust that this time too shall past. We have all been there and there are people that love you. Reach out to them. Be thankful for a chance to live another day and keep making your life better. Be thankful for having the opportunity to make someone …

“We are so accustomed to disguising our true nature from others, that we end up disguising it from ourselves.”– La Rochefoucauld I liked this quote when I read it. It made me think about our outside image to others. Whether that is on social media, with friends, or even at times to our family or partner.  We all do it. Hopefully that not often, but definitely on social media. We don’t share our moods with everyone on social media. We don’t share our hard times usually. If we do, it is often judged as being a bit too revealing, people eye roll, think you are crazy, or honestly just don’t want to hear it. Social media is our escape to look at the perfect pictures, fun times, and lives to be jealous of. They make us all depressed but addicted to also posting our best pictures to the best parts of our life. And this new social media craze leaves us so disguised that do we even know ourselves? Are we so busy keeping up …