Brooke Leigh Sheldon

Rollover Moments

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I talk to you all the time about the moments that count. However, I understand there are a lot of you out there who think that a bunch of your moments do not count for as much as you’d like them to. So you’ve asked me if, well, you can store them somewhere to use [...]

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Yard Sale Zen

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Last weekend I had a yard sale. There is a Zen to yard sales. Yard sales – they are interesting events. At a yard sale, people show you all kinds of things about themselves, whether or not they intend to. Some come to buy. Some come to wander. Some come to haggle. Some come to [...]

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18 Films to Trick and Treat You

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The season is upon us. The time for spiders (Don’t ya’ hate walking through a spider web, ewwwww, creepola!!!) and bats (They mine bat poop (guano)…. Who knew?!), ghosts (See, I told you to get out in the sun a little more!!!) and werewolves (They leave me howling!). Let’s not forget vampires (They’re the ones [...]

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The Green-Eyed Monster

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The perception of jealousy being “green-eyed” likely predates Mr. Shakespeare, though The Bard is our earliest authority in print. His first reference is in The Merchant of Venice. It is Portia who refers to “green-eyed jealousy”, but it is in Othello where Will coins the more intense term “green-ey’d monster.” However, before Shakespeare and since, [...]

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Make a Wish

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What is the thing you most want or wish for? Place no limits on your answer to this question. Let your mind go wherever it chooses. Is what comes to mind something you wish for yourself or something you want for someone else? What do you visualize will be different when this change materializes? What [...]

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How Leaders Happen

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You may think you are a leader, you may think you have no leadership potential at all.  But sometimes, when you least expect it, you find yourself in a leadership position without knowing how you got there. Music Credit:  Chris Lambert, a leader in musical composition Album:  The Great Dipso Drought 1st track:  Delirium Tremums [...]

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Full Speed Ahead

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How do you sail through your life? What I am asking you is if you are the Captain of your life’s journey or a Passenger on your voyage? Do you choose to accept responsibility for making the decisions about the course you intend to take? Or, do you prefer to look out across the vastness [...]

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What I Ask

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What can one ordinary person do when they give themselves permission to be the best that they can be?  What is the yardstick that you use to measure your personal worth? Music Credits:  Kevin MacLeod Please share this story!

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If I Had It To Do Over Again

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I have a list sitting on my computer desktop. I call it my “If I Had It To Do Over Again” list. It is a list I have compiled from all the carefully held wishes, quietly explained dreams and angrily yelled regrets people who are dying have expressed to me. I have spent much of [...]

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3 College Students, 2 Charities, 1 Great Adventure

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On Sunday, August 7th at noon, Skate Treks For Charity ends a 13 day, 260 mile, push-powered journey down the coast of California.  Their goal has been to raise money and awareness for their two favorite charities, Mourning Star Center and Camp Erin. Both children’s charities help youth who have suffered the loss of a [...]

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