Train for Life

Category: Happiness

  • Happy Valentine’s Day!

    Today I see and experience love everywhere.

  • Happy New Year

    Welcome 2019 with happiness and positivity, and a “I can do it!” vibe.

  • Happy December!

    December 2018 Goal:  Be Happy each and every day! To access this calendar’s web links, visit:  Greater Good Science Center’s December 2018 Happiness Calendar .

  • Therapy Thursday

  • Gratitude

    What are you grateful for this year? How will you express your gratitude? Gratitude is good medicine. — Robert A. Emmons, professor of psychology at UC Davis 10 Reasons to Practice an Attitude of Gratitude, year round Gratitude Empowers You Visit www.gratefulness.org, which is an “online sanctuary” designed to foster grateful living. It can be very…

  • Workout Wednesday

    Have you ever experienced Flow? A state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience is so enjoyable that people will continue to do it at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it. -Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1990) What is Flow? Complete concentration on the task Clarity if goals and reward in mind and…

  • Kindness and Gratitude Calendar

    30 DAY CHALLENGE How to be kind and express gratitude?  Print, post, and practice one positive act a day!  

  • Monday Motivation

          How will you return to yourself this week? In what ways will you free yourself from other people’s inaccurate opinions, beliefs, and false assumptions about you? Do what makes you happy; what makes you feel good and makes you you!  

  • Monday Motivation

    Ease into it. Are you working hard to make things make sense, exhausting yourself with battling? Set yourself free. Go with the sweet flow instead of  struggling against it. Surrender to how things are. Remember, you have your own kind of wings. Find them and use them. -Melody Ross

  • Therapy Thursday

    Whose voice is in your head? Does this voice strengthen or weaken your self-esteem? What is self-esteem? “Trusting our own mind and knowing that we are worthy of happiness.” – Nathaniel Branden 4 Pillars of Self-Esteem Self-acceptance Self-responsibility Self-assertiveness Living consciously in integrity and purpose Carol McCloud writes a simple yet powerful message in her 2006 book, Have You Filled A…