by Patricia C. Brooks | Dec 15, 2021 | Self-acceptance
Know Thyself. Be Thyself Have you ever noticed that there are some people who just seem to shine really brightly? They attract people to them and they have a charisma that is magnetizing and makes you take notice? What is it that they have, that others don’t? I don’t...
by Patricia C. Brooks | Mar 11, 2021 | Embracing Change, Food for Thought AND Action
“Peanut butter and jelly again,” complained the factory worker for the tenth day in a row. Jim, his friend and co-worker, was tired of hearing him complain and asked, “Who makes your lunch anyway? Maybe you should ask for something different.” To which the...
by Patricia C. Brooks | Feb 21, 2021 | Belief, Embracing Change
You have to learn the rules and follow them before you can successfully break them and move on in life. You see, I’m turning into a rule breaker. Me, by the book, check the box, conformist, Patricia. I guess this was what was at the heart of the question that came to...
by Patricia C. Brooks | Feb 14, 2021 | direct experience, Food for Thought AND Action, forward action, living a full life, Self-confidence, Shift perspective, small step
Leap Before You Look? There is more to life than spreadsheets, back-to-back meetings with no purpose or seeming progress, and going home at night exhausted wondering: “Is this all there is to life?” Sometimes you’ve got to pull the trigger to figure things out. ...
by Patricia C. Brooks | Jan 31, 2021 | direct experience, Growing Bold
The distance I have traveled astounds me. Not only the 4,000 miles I traveled to move from Richmond, Virginia to Céret, France, but the distance from my head to my heart, from my body to my soul, from being half alive to living every moment to the fullest. I awake...
