by Beth FItzgerald | May 2, 2019 | Inner Peace, Success
Carl Jung, the Swiss psychiatrist, believed there are 4 stages we all go through in our lifetime. The stages are The Athlete, The Warrior, The Statesman, and The Spirit. The Athlete stage is when we are completely preoccupied with our looks. The Warrior stage is...
by Beth FItzgerald | Apr 23, 2019 | Happiness, Inner Peace, Inspirational
Recently, I was driving north on Interstate 95, returning home from visiting two of my daughters. When I reached the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel, I knew something wasn’t right. This tunnel usually has two lanes headed south and two headed north, but today the...
by Beth FItzgerald | Mar 18, 2019 | Happiness, Inner Peace
Would you like to be happier, less stressed, more creative, and more motivated? Me, too! Apparently, there is a mathematical formula for us to follow. Researcher Barbara Fredrickson has studied the general effects of positivity and found that there is a tipping point...
by Beth FItzgerald | Mar 14, 2019 | Happiness, Inner Peace, Integrity
The college admissions scandal has me talking to myself. As I read more and more of the details, I find myself saying, “Was it really worth it?” Was your child going to Yale, Georgetown, or USC worth going to jail? Surely most of us will say...
by Beth FItzgerald | Mar 13, 2019 | Happiness, Inner Peace, Stress, Uncategorized
Have you ever heard of the Danish word hygge? It is a Danish word that defies literal translation but keeps popping up in my life from meditation to candles so I thought I would share. By the way, it is pronounced “hue-gah”. Hygge is more often than not...
by Beth FItzgerald | Mar 4, 2019 | Happiness, Inner Peace, Motivational Monday
Did you know greed is much more developed in human beings than in any other animal because we have the unique capacity to project ourselves into the future? We continuously ask “will there be enough?” And, with our cultural bias toward materialism, we have...