I have written and posted a blog since 2008.  This year I have come to appreciate just how much writing and posting a blog imitates life.  In a ‘good life’ there are supportive people, sharing, effort, opinions and errors.  When writing a blog, one of the main objectives is to engage with people, while sharing opinions, putting...Read More

The Upside of Your Dark Side is Robert Biswas-Diener’s newest scholarly contribution to Positive Psychology.  The Upside of Your Dark Side is NOT a book about setting goals, yet it is destined to become a seminal  book about succeeding in life. Together with Todd Kashdan, Robert has added one of the biggest AND’s to the...Read More

As a regular reader of my blog, have you found yourself wondering, “Where is Jada Yarbough?”  Rest assured, Jada is okay but starting college has proven to be a prioritizing challenge.  I honor and respect those times in life when things we like to do get moved aside, while things we must do take precedence....Read More

In my last post, I Don’t Want Followers!, I left you with some questions that could be applied to your use of social media — or any other way you invest your life energy moment-by-moment. I know creating a space between Albert Ellis ‘muster-bating’ and Dr. Cortney Warren’s imperative to Choose Honesty,  is far from easy....Read More

“Mom, I don’t want followers!”  When my adult daughter, Dana, said those words in a moment of frustration after a recent job interview, I could do nothing but laugh.  Dana’s exasperation came after a she was informed that available yoga teaching positions were in limited supply.  To make her point, the interviewer added, “I even...Read More

Screw Being Happy! Of all the things you expected to hear from me at the beginning of a work week, I bet ‘screw being happy’ was not on your list.  Now that I have your attention, I will explain. My private client base is well-educated, affluent and not only achievement orientated, but have already achieved...Read More

The beauty of Positive Psychology is its simple, cost-free approach to achieving results.  Want to increase your level of life satisfaction, well-being or happiness? It is simple:  learn to savor small moments during your day. Over the last week I savored more than just one moment re-reading Paulo Coehlo’s, The Alchemist.  I made a note of many...Read More

On July 23 I published a blog post Are You Living a Life or Your Resume?  I suggest you read (or hopefully re-read) that post first so the rest of this makes sense. This week my husband Richard Goeglein got a clear message as to which he has done over the last 50 years of...Read More

Again, like so many business people, I am in a dither about Twitter and faced with the question: To tweet or not to tweet. When I first wrote about this in 2009, I ended my post with a T. Boone Picken’s suggestion of spending my time developing relationships that are a foot wide, but a mile...Read More