What each day needs, that shalt thou ask. Each day will set its proper task. ~ Goethe If you think today is just another day, think again. Today is all you have, or all you can count on. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow may not come. But today can be embraced and enjoyed and made the most […]
Self-Knowledge (Connect with Self)
Here’s What It Means to Leave the Corporate World to Work for Yourself
NOTE FROM ELIZABETH: Every Heartspoken Life is unique, and it has been my honor to meet many smart, interesting, caring, generous women and men through my online activities who exemplify the Heartspoken Life in their own way. Today’s guest, Sue Painter, is one of them. She and I are among those folks who have had […]
Book Review: The Book Of Longings
Author: Sue Monk KiddPublished 20205 stars There were so many marvelous layers to this book! First, it is a fascinating and well-researched story based on the premise that for ten years before his ministry, Jesus had a wife named Ana and she was both a writer and a feminist of her time. Viewing the life […]
8 Ways To Get Past Feeling Misunderstood
“What we have here is failure to communicate!” The famous movie line from Cool Hand Luke was spoken facetiously by the Captain, a prison warden, to Luke, the young prisoner played by Paul Newman. Perhaps one of the reasons it has stayed so deeply ingrained in our cultural lore is because the failure to communicate is […]
Book Review: A Gentleman In Moscow
Book author: Amor TowlesPublished 2016 In 1922 at age 30, the protagonist, Russian Count Alexander Rostov, finds himself sentenced by a Bolshevik tribunal to house arrest for the crime of being an unrepentant aristocrat. His reputation and popularity allow him to escape execution, but he must move from an elegant suite in a grand hotel […]
It’s Time to Get Right with Money
Anyone who is serious about understanding themselves had better get a handle on their relationship with money. This free e-course can show you how…just in time for your holiday spending. Our attitudes about money are usually formed quite early in our lives, and far too often, we operate on those initial ingrained thoughts and assumptions […]
Heartspoken Moment: Your Circumstances Don’t Care About You
The circumstances of your life at any moment don’t care about you at all, so don’t waste time or energy trying to change what you can’t control. One of the key components of the Stoic philosophy—one that has stood the test of time for thousands of years—is that to live our best life—our most #HeartspokenLife, […]
Let’s Get Right With Money: Part 4 of 4
Too many of us have an unhealthy relationship with money, and that misalignment with our heart and soul can have serious consequences. This is the fourth in the 4-part series. The other parts are here: Part 1: Let’s Talk About Money IntroductionPart 2: Myth #1 – There’s not enoughPart 3: Myth #2 – More is […]