Gratitude and Trust: Six Affirmations That Will Change Your Life

Change, Courage, Hanging In There

THEN AND NOW

In honor of the winter Olympic games in Sochi we have a special guest blogger Tai Babilonia, who was a two time Olympian and  World Pair Champion with her partner Randy Gardner. Tai has generously shared some of her feelings with us here at Gratitude and Trust.  And boy are we grateful. Thank you Tai.   A couple of weeks ago, I attended an event to celebrate 2014 Olympic athletes and cheer them on as they marched in the Sochi… Read More

Action, Addictions, Bravery, Courage, Ego, Risk

THE COMPETITIVE SPIRIT

  I’m not usually competitive.  I don’t play most sports for obvious reasons. Age, height and weight combined with minimal hand-eye coordination have kept me comfortably on the sidelines. I do love golf but have never really been good enough to get all,  “I’m gonna kick some ass out there today!’” about it.   My greatest opponent on the golf course resides just under my hat and right between my ears.  Like most golfers, I’m my own worst enemy. Too many swing… Read More

Courage

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.

Courage, Hanging In There, Obstacles

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

Action, Change, Courage, Faith, Freedom, Living Fully, Mistakes, Moving Forward

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop,… Read More

Courage, Faith, Fear, Hanging In There, Living Fully

Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

Change, Courage, Fear

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Courage

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.

Courage, Fear

The MASK OF FEAR

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. ~ FDR ~ I’m one of four children. I have two older siblings; the oldest, a brother, the second in command, a sister and a younger brother who was born when my parents decided they didn’t want to deal with “empty nest syndrome”. But for a good while I was the youngest. Somewhere in the research of family personality tests, the youngest child is suppose to be the spoiled one… Read More

Clarity, Courage, Living Fully

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.