Style Statement -- Live by your own design

We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.
~ Adelle Davis
We’ve all heard it before. You. Are. What. You. Eat.
It is so simply profound that we’d like to call your attention to it this week and ask you this: [...]

Invite Improvement
Here’s a radical notion: What if you really liked, even outright adored, every material thing in your own life? What if the quality, shape, color, function, and feel of everything you owned gave you satisfaction, pride, and delight?
Often, people hold on to futons and tired old chairs long after their university days have passed. [...]

Beauty embraced me this week – in nature, with my son, who is a year old today, and with my clients. This post is for Leighton, Laurie and you.
The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere—in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion, and in ourselves. Beauty is the true [...]

We can use our struggles as lessons. The fact is that discomfort, heartache, and anxiety are inevitable. We can’t avoid them, but we can accept them in a way that allows them to pass through with less suffering. The thing is to feel, even if it feels bad … when we don’t resist it, the [...]

Does this happen to you?
You’re getting dressed in the morning, aware you have an important meeting.  You’re thinking, “I need to look professional and successful.” You dress the part — tailored trousers, crisp blouse, black pumps, and your grandmother’s pearls. Then you catch a glimpse of yourself in the mirror and shriek, “Who the hell [...]

When’s the last time you received or sent a personal long-form letter or handwritten card?
Odds are it was an occasion: a birthday, Valentine’s Day, or maybe Mothers’ Day. These are all lovely times for thoughtfulness, but it is such a treat to get a card or letter out of the blue — just because someone [...]

A woman holds up a dress for her husband to check out. “What do you think, honey?” she asks. “It’s ugly, ” he answers. “But it’s 50% off!” she says. “Yeah,” he says patiently, “but it’s ugly.”
This example, my friends, is a clear case of the Curse of the Sale. Oh, the seduction! The temptation! [...]

Motivation. It’s what moves us to act, the reason we behave in certain ways, the purpose behind what we do (or don’t do) in life. We can be motivated by other people at various times (e.g.,  a hard-driving sports trainer or a parent) … but the most powerful, enduring source of motivation is …
… inside [...]

Let’s face it: life can go at a pretty fast pace, with a myriad of competing demands and pressures. It’s way too easy to get lost in the details and feel overwhelmed unless we make a point of pausing to breathe, interrupt the manic whirl, and regenerate.
Establishing a ritual is a wonderful way to do [...]