Life Skills Blog

March 18th, 2009 | by Lynn | Tags: acceptance, adjusting, Anxiety, Books, Consistence, Emotional Health and Wellbeing, Frustration, Health, Home, Mental Health, Persistence, Procrastination, Self-help, Take action 

If you’ve ever felt a state of sluggish inactivity from time to time ((((the dreaded procrastination))), you probably know the sense of helplessness that overshadows your life. You want your life to change, but you feel powerless to do anything

January 31st, 2009 | by Lynn | Tags: acceptance, adjusting, Beauty, Blood Pressure, Emotional Health and Wellbeing, Frustration, Health, human behavior, Humidity, Kids and Teens, School Time, Slow motion 

“Everything has its beauty, not everyone sees it.” ­ Confucius
Does this quote imply that because we may not see something in it’s beauty that it is not beautiful?  No, not at all.
There has been a growing trend  in our country of

January 22nd, 2009 | by Lynn | Tags: adjusting, Anxiety, attitude, Blood Pressure, Frustration, Kids and Teens, Relationships 

I could write for days about this topic?  Why because I generally do a lot of listening in my job.  Most of us do, we just don’t realize it!

Consider this quote, you may have to read it a couple times over!
I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not [...]

January 19th, 2009 | by Lynn | Tags: acceptance, Add new tag, adjusting, Emotional Health and Wellbeing, envision, Frustration, human behavior, Relationships, Self-help 

“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.”
Willie Nelson quotes (American country western singer)
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“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.”
Herm Albright quotes (1876 - 1944)
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Which quote above do you identify with more? I think they are [...]

January 12th, 2009 | by Lynn | Tags: acceptance, adjusting, Family, Frustration, Health, human behavior, John C. Maxwell, self-esteem, Self-help, Twelve-step program 

When you look into the mirror, you are seeing the problem and the solution.
Oftentimes that is a hard idea to digest.
I have heard this statement by John Maxwell, an American