A Shot Of Optimism

You know, when I launched Discover Your YIPPEE, I understood intellectually, what it meant to have a business online. I had to have a website, right?  So I got one. It didn’t take long for me to [...]

You are smart, accomplished and look like you have the world by the tail.  People turn to you for advice, and you make your living being confident and sure.  And yet… you have a dirty little [...]

When we’re discovering our Yippee, it’s easy to overlook our talents, to take them for granted or to struggle because we don’t know what our gifts really are. Our gifts are often easy to miss [...]

Did you rip off any bandages last week? Did you sort through the easy-to-postpone things that need to be done now? If you did, CONGRATULATIONS. Your “do it now list” (the one we talked about last [...]

What’s on your “meant to” list? I meant to call my grandmother, aunt, sick friend. I meant to work out. I meant to get tickets for the event. I meant to practice… the piano, yoga, or cooking a [...]

Have you ever been to your high school or college reunion? Or have you skipped them, fearing you might not “measure up” to some imaginary standard you set for yourself? Or perhaps your early [...]

Did someone take credit for YOUR work? Did someone blame you for something you didn’t do? Did a friend betray a confidence? Did your side of the story never get told? Our sense of injustice has [...]

What really drives us to action? What is really running our lives?  Beliefs.  Beliefs we may not even know we have. Our beliefs decide: who we hire who we marry how we raise our kids how much [...]

How many times have you said: That will never happen Only in the movies In your dreams Many of us go from believing in Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and happily ever after, to the harsh reality of [...]

Sometimes it seems like other people’s success happens overnight. They are just plain talented or ‘inspired’.  As if they didn’t have to work at all for their talent or [...]