Take the Initiative. Be proactive. If you want to rock your relationship results, it is going to take action, effort, initiative, and choosing to get in the game—so, step up, step out, and show up!

The Art of Communication shares insights to help you communicate with a higher awareness and focused intention and meet people on their level to increase clarity and understanding.

Your life is happening in the NOW, yet the present moment is often squandered by your thinking about what has happened in the past or may happen in the future.

Just be Nice. Nice—this little word has a big meaning. Use it generously. Being nice helps people feel emotionally safe, allowing for more authentic, trusting, and happy interactions.

Be Brave. Bravery takes fortitude—put yourself on the line, even if you risk failing, falling, being embarrassed, or looking stupid—if being brave were easy, more people would be. Just try it!

Manners Matter. Courteous behavior is the hallmark of healthy relations and human interaction. Manners ensure you will be more respected, admired, and appreciated. Thank you!

Begin to take the initiative when you want to meet someone new. Be the one who steps forward first. Simply say hello and begin a conversation.

Imagine how many new friends you would make, how much new business you could create, and how much fun you could have by simply taking the initiative to be the inviter.

Polishing the gold in others is easy to do and a valuable habit to develop to transform your relationship results. People will usually rise to the occasion and live up to your positive expectations.

You already know the difference between being a gracious person versus a rude one.

Impeccable manners and courteous behavior are the hallmarks for healthy relations and human interaction.

Some days are better than others. The same can be said about people.

Never does a person feel so wise, so mature and so adult as when she is not.

It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

We are only tenants, and shortly the great Landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Don't be reluctant about putting on overalls!

Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.

One does have to learn to travel with a degree of humility and that reflected in writing and personality.

[N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation.

The fruit of the Spirit is not what we can make ourselves do for a moment, But what God makes us to be for a lifetime.

If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.