Author Archives: Tracey Jackson
OK ON THE INSIDE
I was in Los Angeles last week, which always means a trip to the hairdresser and seeing the highly evolved Peter Ishkans. Peter was the inspiration for one of my first blogs here, “Make Your Mind Your Friend.” Aside from a perfect haircut I always walk away from Peter with some little kernel of wisdom. And like the sages, Gurus and other wise folk, it’s never really complicated. It’s always a sentence, a statement, or a couple of words.… Read More
GRATEFUL FOR FREEDOM
If you take a minute and look around the world, we must all celebrate today and be grateful for the freedom we have as Americans. We may all have different religious beliefs, political beliefs, gender preferences and socio-economic situations – but we are blessed to live in the land of the free. Happy Fourth Of July!
“BE THE BEACON”
“Each day try to find a way to rescue someone. A smile might be a lifeline, for others a soft touch or a hug. So many of us are lost out at sea, be the beacon.” Reader Michael Gullickson sent this in the other day in the form of a comment, in response to Carol Maxym’s inspirational blog. We in turn made it Friday’s affirmation. It jumped off the screen in the most succinct, eloquent honest way. It… Read More
WHEN ARE YOU AT YOUR BEST?
Part of living a happy, healthy and productive life is figuring out when we are at our best for certain tasks and trying as hard as we can to work our life around that. It’s not always easy. Most of us have jobs that require us to show up in some form or another, others who rely on us, homes to maintain, bodies to keep healthy and minds and souls that need to be nourished. Oh right and sleep.… Read More
DOUBLE, DOUBLE OTHER PEOPLES’ TROUBLES
….can enter your life and make it bubble…… Who amongst us has not experienced this? Here we are tra-la-la bumbling along dealing with our shit, facing our issues, trying to sort through the daily pimples on the skin of our lives and pop them before they fester. We’re working with our loved ones, workmates, roommates, randomly frazzled friends and sometimes strained relations in as mature and self-aware manner as we can. We’re attempting and more often than not succeeding… Read More
DO IT EVERYDAY
While it’s important to have a life that is as textured and varied as possible and to also be flexible and nimble enough to handle the ups and downs that come our way, it is essential for us to have certain things we do every day. A few daily rituals ground us , give us a schedule we control and nourish us. It’s proven that children who grow up in households where everyone eats dinner around the table at… Read More
WHERE ARE YOU UNHAPPY?
When we go to the doctor they always ask “Where does it hurt?” But unless you go to a psychologist or therapist of some sort, people don’t tend to ask you “where are you unhappy?” I don’t mean this in terms of a place. Like I hate the beach. Or I get depressed in dark museums. I’m miserable at my in-laws. It’s the question we need to constantly ask ourselves about our lives. Where are we unhappy? Is it with… Read More
PLAY YOUR GAME BETTER
Do you find it interesting how so often when you least expect to hear something inspirational it comes to you from the least likely of places? And more often than not it zips in at exactly the right time. You gotta love the universe. And when did I start sounding like Paul? Yesterday after a long day of work I threw my tired body into a taxi. All I wanted was a little quiet until I got home and… Read More
CHANGING LIFE LANES
I know today is affirmation day, but we are kind of getting our blogging legs here and sometimes there will be things that we post just because they are so awesome or relevant or uplifting they need to be shared right away. I just watched a really important video of a lecture given by the philosopher Roman Krznaric. “Roman Krznaric is a cultural thinker and writer on the art of living. He is a founding faculty member of The School of Life in… Read More
GRATITUDE AND GLAMOUR
Normally today would be day when we do affirmations sent in by one of you. But this is Paul Williams an my site and this week Paul opened here in New York at the Cafe Carlyle. Very rarely I will do double posting, which means I will post the same blog on my site TraceyJacksononline.com and here. Today is one of those days as I thought all of you might like to see Paul’s opening night and the blog… Read More