Working to Create a Safe, Sober, Space for Teens in Their Community

Teenagers need to belong and feel accepted, and they need to know that someone cares for them, or better yet, that the entire community cares for them. The City of Surrey hosted the ‘Surrey Steps Up Awards’, on May 2, 2014, at the brand new Surrey City Hall, where Mayor Diane Watts honored Surrey teens… Continue reading Working to Create a Safe, Sober, Space for Teens in Their Community

Review of Week 16 – Open Space In My Heart For Blessings

For this week’s optimizing yourself exercise, I cleaned out the cupboard in the laundry room where I put everything that I don’t know what to do with. I call it my procrastination cupboard, full of stuff I haven’t decided to throw out yet. It is where I look, if someone asks me where that thing-a-ma-gig… Continue reading Review of Week 16 – Open Space In My Heart For Blessings

Week 16 – Optimizing Yourself – Discard An Item A Day To Create BIG Space

This week, I am going to get rid of at least one item a day that is not useful, beautiful, or joyful, as Paulo Coelho says, in order to “open space in my heart for all the blessings” that this week will bring. What a positive feeling to open space in my heart for blessings… Continue reading Week 16 – Optimizing Yourself – Discard An Item A Day To Create BIG Space

52 Weeks to Optimizing Yourself 2014 – Week 3 – Go BIG With Gaining Patience

  This week I am going to turn off my cell phone and computer for 10 minutes each day, and carve out an area for myself where I can sit and peacefully meditate on gaining patience in my life.  Each day this week, as I breathe in and out, under the window where the sun… Continue reading 52 Weeks to Optimizing Yourself 2014 – Week 3 – Go BIG With Gaining Patience