Grow From The Confidence You Gain From Love

“To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to have confidence you have to be loved, to be loved you have to love”
Author Unknown

Life is too short to NOT give yourself time to be and time to find out and face why you are doing what you are doing each and every day. That's what weekends are for.

Look on this weekend as an opportunity to experiment - experiment in your life, exploring who you are and what you want from it.

I have learned many hard lessons in my life - many I continue to learn each day. Some I wish I didn't have to learn. But life teaches us the things that we must learn in order to become who we want to be.

Look at your life and find your love. Find your passion. Find that someone or something that loves you back - fills your passion so that your heart stays full and can explore and experiment without fear.

Take some time today and / or tomorrow. Listen to yourself, your heart, and to the words you hear around you. Seek out the love that encourages you to grow and seek out new things, find new paths and want more.

Ask yourself if you are being filled with the love that gives you the confidence to pursue and experiment in life.

Ask yourself if you feel like you are so grounded and rooted in love, that you can, like a tree, reach up to the sky with your branches, and become all that you can become.

Do this for yourself. Do this for those that love you. Do this and live.

Take Advantage of the New Beginnings of Spring

It's so funny, I know I say this during all of the four seasons, but Spring is definitely my favorite. I love the way it represents rebirth and renewal.

From lifelessness comes life and from black and white comes an abundant rainbow of colors.

This weekend I've had my kids - and we have enjoyed every minute of each day, playing outside, picnicking, and basking in the sunlight.

Not every day is perfect. But it sure can be close, when you commit to making it the best it can be.

The weekend might be over, but life and happiness don't end on Sunday night. Make a point to do something that will bring new hope and new life to you world every day this week.

- Go for a walk in the park at sunset
- Visit a friend you haven't seen for months
- Eat your lunch outside, with your shoes off - letting the grass wriggle through your toes.
- Rather than buying your Mom a gift this week for Mother's Day, do something really special, make something for her like you did in Kindergarten
- Do something for your significant other that you haven't done for them in a long time that you know they just LOVE.

It's May! The Sun is warm and the flowers are blooming. Make sure to live today like its your last day on earth, and at the same time like its the first day of the rest of your life - BECAUSE IT IS!

When you change how you look at life, you change the way your life looks.