Do you ever feel like you are too tired to do more? That you just want a break from work and sleep all day? Or that you don't want to look at another screen for a few hours? I know I do. There are days when all I want to do is lay on my ...
Buttoning Up the Year with Gratitude
Written by contributing blogger, Daniela Forte. I can’t honestly say I have been grateful for everything this year. While I have had some wonderful moments happen and I have met some new people who have shown me kindness I hadn’t seen in a long time, I found gratitude to be lacking in my life. I have instead ...
Don’t Let Someone Make you Doubt Your Worth…
Have you ever been in a situation where someone puts you down or ridicules you for something? I'm not talking about the middle or high school days. I'm talking about a friend or boyfriend or coworker... Imagine a significant other plays hot and cold with you, brushes you off when they feel like it, and then ...
Be Humble
Some of the most loved folks - celebrities, professors, C suite folks, etc have one thing in common. And it's not intelligence and ambition. It's not just great leadership. It's the ability to be humble. I've found that the bosses and friends I've enjoyed the company of most are humble the majority of the time. I ...
Finding Forgiveness and Letting Go
Written by contributing blogger, Daniela Forte. The title of this post is exactly what I am struggling with right now. I was terribly hurt by a friend of mine recently and finding a way to forgive this person and letting it all go is a one day at a time process. I have focused lately on all ...
What I Know to Be True… Right Now
Written by contributing blogger, Daniela Forte. I have learned a lot of harsh lessons recently. I'm not sure whether these lessons are meant to harden me or transition me into a new phase of life. But these lessons are what I know to be true right now. People Are Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: Not everyone who is ...
The little comforts
Over time, I’ve realized that life is so busy, I need to rely on the little comforts in life. They’re helpful for a bit of distraction, a bit of reprieve, and a moment to just rest and not think (as much). My comforts depend on my mood, obviously, but I definitely have my go-to’s that ...
Why It’s Never Personal
Written by contributing blogger, Daniela Forte. For weeks now my good friend and I have been talking about how we’re impacted so deeply by other people’s actions. How much we each take an emotional hit based on what others do. We take it personally. Now, taking things personally isn’t always a bad thing, but it isn’t a ...
Why is Patience so Hard?
According to Psychology Today, it's not easy, but even a dog can do it... "My dog eats two meals a day, one in the morning and one in the evening. She is trained to sit until the bowl is on the floor before she leaps to start eating. She does it, but it is a ...
Taking the time to do the long distance friendship
In your 20s, your friends surround you. In your 30s your friends are spread everywhere. They are in the burbs, different cities, different states, even continents. As cliché, as it sounds thank goodness for the digital age. Nowadays we can text, gchat, snap, and gram our friends in seconds and feel an assemblence of connection ...