生活大胆而绽放

How To Rekindle Your Relationship And Fall In Love Again

March 18, 2022April 4, 2014 byBarrie Davenport

Stop reading for a moment, and think back to the first few weeks after you met your spouse or love partner.

Actually, try to visualize an early date where you were cuckoo for CoCo Puffs about this amazing person. And they felt the same about you.

Remember how it feltfalling in love, how happily distracted you were, how you couldn’t wait to see her — how everything he said was interesting and funny.

Remember how you felt the two of you were special? Meant for each other. Destined to be together.

And now . . . not so much.

How To Be Beautiful

December 2, 2020March 2, 2014 byBarrie Davenport

“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.” ~Kahlil Gibran

When I was in high school, I had a friend who was not beautiful or even particularly pretty, but she was very popular.

Both girls and guys liked her, she had a steady boyfriend, and she was always hanging out with the most popular crowd. And she was genuinely nice to everyone.

4 Personal Decisions For Lasting Change

May 26, 2021February 20, 2014 byBarrie Davenport

Once upon a time, I was one of those people who thought I could ruminate or think my way out of a problem ortoward a change in life.

I spent a lot of time in my head considering what I did and didn’t want for my life and how I wanted to make positive change. I journaled my thoughts and dreams. I read dozens of self-help, healthy living, and spiritual growth books.

And I sincerely hoped everything I absorbed by thinking and reading would somehowchange my life for the better.

Can Your Intimate Relationship Survive This?

January 22, 2021January 23, 2014 byBarrie Davenport

Our relationship with our intimate partner or spouse is the most important relationship of our lives.

It is the centerpiece around which everything else in our lives revolves. Or at least it should be.

This significant other, our love relationship, can define our happiness and well-being, our sense of security, and evenour self-confidenceandself-esteem.

Feeling Stressed Out? 10 Ways To Relieve Stress

July 29, 2021December 26, 2013 byBarrie Davenport

You check the balance in your bank account and see you don’t have enough to cover this month’s bills.

Your boss hands you yet another project to complete by the end of the week, on top of the stack already piled on your desk.

Your spouse has just announced he’s going out-of-town and all three kids are sick.

You are late for a doctor’s appointment for those concerning symptoms, and traffic is bumper to bumper.

How To Boost Your Self-Confidence After Failure

August 18, 2020December 12, 2013 byBarrie Davenport

“我们最大的光荣不在于从不失败,但我n rising up every time we fail.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

There’s nothing like good old-fashioned failure to send your self-confidence into a nose dive.

I’m not talking about the little flubs and foibles of life.

I’m talking big, fat, fall-on-your-face failure.

Failure like . . .

Why Introverts Might Rule The World

August 18, 2020November 11, 2013 byBarrie Davenport

“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” ~Mahatma Gandhi

Just over a year ago, I heard author Susan Cain speak at the World Domination Summit in Portland, Oregon.

She had recently published her book,Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking , and was discussing how introverts operate in a world that favors extroversion and why the internally-driven should be more highly-valued in society and the workplace.

20 Ways To Overcome Life Challenges

September 10, 2020November 7, 2013 byBarrie Davenport

Have you ever experienced difficult times in your life — those times when you felt lost and had no idea how to keep moving forward?

Perhaps it was in a relationship or a business or maybe even a life and death situation.

How would you like to develop grit and resilience that could help you in overcoming challenges with anything that comes your way?