Tiny Bites of Wagaliciousness

Are you a mirror or a candle? What the heck do I mean by that?? Mirrors can be used in a lot of wonderful ways – they allow us to see ourselves, they can make a room look bigger, and those are good things. But mirrors...

I ran across this quote from Pema Chodron – “You are the sky. Everything else is the weather.” Do you love that as much as I do? It’s a great reminder of your vastness, your calmness, your value and your beauty. It’s...

Are there special things you see that mean something to you? Maybe it’s matching numbers like 333 or 1111. Maybe it’s a butterfly, or a hummingbird or a rainbow or any of a million possibilities. Those little...

When things get tense, find something to laugh about. This is especially important for people who work closely together in stressful situations, like veterinary hospitals. Having an inside joke – one that’s not at the...

Johnathan Swift, the satirist from the 1700’s, wrote, “Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.” Need an example of a visionary? Nikola Tesla, who dreamed and then created alternating current, the concept of the...

Are you big? I spent a big part of my life trying to fit in, to adapt, to be part of…whatever. And then I discovered that we were never meant to do that. People who cared about us taught us to adapt and fit in because...

Gratitude is different than appreciation. Nice is different than good. Right is different than fair. And words intended to solve a problem can be the very way a problem gets way out of hand. Those three sets of words...

Remember the problems you had in elementary school? You have different problems now than you did then, so why do you repeat the same behavior patterns now that you did then? That’s easy to answer – it’s because those...

“All the beauty of life is made up of light and shadows.” Leo Tolstoy said that and if you’ve read any of his work, you know he valued the shadows of life as much as the light. Without shadows, the world around us...

Human beings are creatures of habit. Have you ever watched helplessly as your best friend picked the same type of bad-for-her relationship partner? That happens because we’re innately drawn to patterns of behavior...

Do you have team members who play the blame game? When something happens, their default response is to point a finger at someone else so that they won’t be blamed for it. This is so harmful to team dynamics and to the...

Have you let your imagination come out to play at work? Maybe you have a difficult surgery on your schedule – what if you let your imagination do the surgery before you actually do it? Imagine the steps through the...