I like it when three completely different things present themselves to you as gifts from the Universe and they all illustrate the same thing in different ways.

It was humid. It was sticky. And the pain in my back was starting in the very middle of a very long run. What to do? I stopped to stretch with the gnats swirling around me…and ate a bar and tried to regroup.

Today my daughter said something like, “ACK I almost forgot my water bottle!” then she whacked her head and then said, “that would have been dumb of me.” Quicker than quick, my husband says to her, “Be careful with that kind of talk Ava.” They proceeded to have a discussion about self talk and how powerful it is.

Take a ride if you will with me in the wayyyback machine – back to 1988. AAAAHHH! I was in college and besides having larger than normal hair, I was balancing 3-4 jobs, going to school full time and… searching for something. It took me a good 25 years to find it, but what happened on a particular day in 1988 stuck with me.

Can you feel it? Everything thawing, melting and wanting to grow? That’s you too. You’re ready to grow. Can you feel it stirring – your desire to move?

Friend – you are perfect as you are. You are growing, changing, learning and evolving each day. And you are different – and THAT is what makes you beautiful. You are different from me and I’m different from you.

TIME.TIME.TIME. I don’t have time. What time is it? There’s never enough time in the day. I’m late. Time to go. Our budgeting of time really takes up a lot of space no? Have you ever heard something – and it’s a game changer?

You wouldn’t think Mork from Ork and emotional vampires would have much in common would you? For me they do.

I’m confident that there is solid physiological research that supports the benefits of One.Deep.Breath.

Here are 12 researched strategies for sustainable happiness courtesy of "The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want" by Sonja Lyubomirsky:

I used to be a skydiver. Crazy, right? It brought me great pleasure and some amazing friends. But the thing I’m most grateful for is that skydiving taught me some MAJOR life lessons.