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Your Charmed Life

You never know where you’ll find one, and you may be the oddest couple anywhere, but if you’re open to them (and if you slow down enough to make the connection), kindred spirits are all around you. None of us is lucky enough to strike up conversations with all of them, but when we find…

I was watching Wayne Dyer’s new DVD, Ambition to Meaning: Finding Your Life’s Purpose. It’s a feature film with a story and interview clips with Dr. Dyer scattered throughout — altogether viewable and thought-provoking, and parts of it keep coming back to me as reminders to help me grow. His contention is that there comes…

I feel so grateful to have access to the wisdom of the people in my world, those I know well, those I meet in passing, and those I simply read or hear about. There’s truth, of course, in that each of us has all we need inside us, but when something new (or something familiar,…

1. Make a list of what you really, truly love. A whole lot of what you find there—maybe all of it—won’t cost a thing. 2. Hang out with your very favorite humans (4-pawed humans, too). 3. Write a letter—a real letter on paper you choose with a pen that glides nicely across it—and mail it…

I was gushing to my husband on the subway Saturday night: “This was one of the best days of my life!” This is not the first time I’ve said something similar. I would be embarrassed by such a display of superlatives, except I really felt it. It sounds like something a child would say, but…

I got an email today from a lovely writer, Kim Childs, who had interviewed me for a story she wrote in Awakening World magazine about falling in love with your life. Beneath her email signature was this quotation: “Even after all this time, the sun never says to the Earth, ‘You owe me.’ Look what…

Life needs some sweetness in it every day, even if you’ve given up sugar. If you don’t get your sweet fix automatically (i.e., you’re newly in love, you recently moved to Paris, or the work you do inspires the heck out of you), insert it into your day as a priority, right up there with…

Whenever I get together with my friend Elizabeth from Kansas City, she reminds me of what she contends is the funniest thing I ever said. “Remember that time we were all out for breakfast,” she begins, “and you said, ‘The two jobs I could never do are nurse and prostitute’? That always cracks me up.”…

I don’t always bound out of bed with grand expectations about the day ahead, but when I can hear my grandmother saying, “This is a day the Lord has made: I will rejoice and be glad in it,” it helps. And when I get up at the early side of morning instead of the snooze-alarm…

One of the first self-development books I ever read — years before I even dreamed I’d be writing these kinds of books myself — was Psycho-Cybernetics. The author was Maxwell Maltz, MD, a plastic surgeon who had noticed that some of his patients were dissatisfied, even if their surgery took them from deformity to normality,…
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