10 Things You Need to Do if You Want a Happier Life We get up, feed ourselves and our family, get everyone ready for work/school, rush off to our own jobs, come home, get dinner ready, watch TV, get everyone back to bed. Sleep, rinse and repeat. You can’t tell me you’re happy with…
7 Amazing Benefits of Helping Others (and why you always should!)
I want to share a personal story with you. Warning though, it’s hard and sad, so sad. And then following the story I want to give you 7 amazing benefits of helping others and why you always should if you get the chance. I had the chance and turned a blind eye. I will never…
5 Things to Remember When Your Dreams Die and You Feel Like Giving Up
I have a dream. Don’t we all? We should all have many dreams actually. Dreams keep us young and give us something to look forward to or, at the very least, give us something fun to work towards which, in turn, keeps us busy, productive and determined. But what happens when our dreams die and…
I’m Going to Hire God to Be My Business Partner.
These past few months have been rough. I’m not gonna lie. I’ve been struggling a lot with making my business work for me. I’m working up to 12 hours a day every day to promote, create, network, market, write and everything else I feel I should be doing. I’m meditating on it, journalling it, manifesting,…
No One Wants You to Solve Their Problems-Shut Up and Listen.
I have to admit, I’m one of those people that wants to solve all the world’s problems AND if you have a problem I’m right there with all the advice I can muster up. I want everyone to be happy and smiling and be free of pain and suffering. Yup, that’s all I want. Unfortunately, not…
How to Ask For Help When It’s Really Uncomfortable
I was listening to this fabulous podcast the other day and the speaker talked about reaching out. This included reaching out to your friends. She really got me thinking. Am I reaching out to people enough? Do I need to ask for help more than I do? I know that for some people the trouble is…
The Key To Happiness is In One Simple Question
When you wake up in the morning, what pops into your mind first? Do you start thinking about all the work you should do? The emails you should reply to, the pile of paperwork on your desk that you have to complete, or maybe it’s the housework that you still haven’t done? Or do you think…
10 Things I Learned About Myself After I Walked Out.
I didn’t really just walk out. He got a Dear John letter. Leaving was hard. I thought about it for months. A couple of years even. Right after I discovered the last lie it was a matter of time before I left. I had to get all my ducks in a row first. There were…
Why You Need to Stop Thinking Everyone is Better Than You!
Did you already know that? Do you already know how smart you are and that you are better than better? Or do your limiting beliefs and self doubt keep you thinking and playing small? Don’t ya just hate when that happens? We are our own worst critics. For the love of God and everything holy,…
3 Insanely Easy Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog (and make more moo-lah!!)
You know, truth be told, when I first started my blog back in 2014 I had no clue what I was doing. Not a clue. Just write, Iva, you’re a good writer. Just do lots of that. You will write good things and people will flock to your website in droves. Traffic will be insane…