Over-analyzing is a common occurrence in dating, particularly when we are first getting to know someone up until the beginning of a new relationship. Over analysis can happen to anyone, men or women. Over-analysis is not good for a relationship. You can create problems that never really existed in the first place. You might even…

Being kind is pretty amazing. Unfortunately, there are people out there who are jaded and hurt, and view kindness as a weakness. These people may think that if you don’t care, you won’t get hurt. Some people believe that to always be in power that you actually need to care less. The less you are…

Sometimes the truth is so clear. Often times the truth is deep within our hearts and within our grasp but we push the truth aside. We don’t listen. We push away from what our hearts are telling us. But listening to your heart can be scary. Sometimes we don’t know what our heart is truly…

All of us are prone to believing that what we do just doesn’t matter, not really. Especially at the beginning of a new year where many of us take time to reflect on the prior year and wonder what is to come for the year ahead, we all begin to have doubts. These doubts can…

Drama was most evident in my life during high school and my early twenties. I’d seem to be surrounded by people who would gossip, spread rumors or assume the worst when a misunderstanding occurred. I wish I could say that I wasn’t a participant in the drama, but I was. I wish I could say…

This past weekend a close friend of mine visited a mutual friend of ours. Let’s call my close friend Mike and our mutual friend Terry. I like Terry but she has a bad habit of treating Mike pretty poorly. She calls him regularly at odd and quite late hours, in tears, begging for him to…

Authenticity is very important to me. I feel that for a significant part of my life I was not authentic with myself or with others. Once I let that go and started getting real with myself and the people in my life, the quality of my life and relationships with others improved. Like most things…

A couple of months ago I wrote a post about why people may seem mean. I wanted to follow up on how to deal with negative people. Even if you understand the reasons on why a person may be coming across as mean, it is still good to know how to deal with a difficult…

I have always been a nice person. Calling myself nice didn’t really seem like a negative thing for many, many years. I’d always tell people I was nice or often too nice but being too nice didn’t ever seem like a bad thing. One time I was asking a colleague for advice on a situation…

Many of us can relate to the moment where we feel disillusioned with our lives. Feeling like my life doesn’t have a clear vision has occurred for me quite a few times. My life may seem eventful, full of amazing people and I might have a busy calendar but the purpose of my life was…