“Our past is not, as some fear, a series of events carved in stone that we must carry around for the rest of our lives… but a kaleidoscope of experiences that, when viewed through different lenses, can ‘color’ (change) how we see our present and future.”

Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.

People do that sometimes. Change.

To influence others, we must know what is influencing them… and they must know that we get it.

I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.

To be influential in our conversations, we must first be aware of two things, (1) what do we want to bring to the conversation and (2) what do we want to bring out in others.

The way to encourage people to be accountable is to engage the responsible, accountable, trustworthy part of their brain.

The key to changing our past, present, and future is to create our piece of the PIE (our Perceptions, Interpretations, & Expectations) on purpose.

Worry, shame, and fear can’t be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.

Living exclusively in the land of the head or the heart will always be a limiting, limited experience. The most successful among us have dual citizenship.

Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.

When stress and anxiety have your system stuck in a brainstem loop? Reboot. It’s I.T. for life!

When a loving, meaningful experience is our goal, we must trust an energy that is congruent with that goal as our guide along the way. Bottom line, trust love over fear if love is what you’re after.

The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.

Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain.

There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.

Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.

Do what you’re happy with and not what you think whoever else is going to tell you about you ‘acting a color.’ You don’t act at all. You just do what you think is best.

Shades of black intertwined in my being I try to see in color but darkness is all I’m seeing.

If truth be known it is not all about rainbows sometimes eyes of melancholic skies still shine they still find light and color despite the sky.

What I need most of all is color, always, always.

How is it that the colors don’t seem colorful anymore? How is it that the child in me wants to live yet keeps dying more and more?

If anyone wants to abuse other people for whatever colour, race or creed they are, then it’s just stupidness, isn’t it?

I can’t have brown hair for some reason. I don’t think it goes with my skin tone. The second I see it turn brown in the sun, I dye it black – the blacker the better.

He could only give her a world in black and white. And all she wanted was a life of color.