Tina's Words

Do you celebrate? Or do you just keep going? Are you a business owner, entrepreneur, artist, student, barista, or a team leader that is doing all the things it takes to get to the big goals and there are no breaks between for celebration? There is a lost art to celebration. We have forgotten that it is important. It impacts our forward motion. If we don’t celebrate, we are just on the seemingly endless uphill journey of hardness. We see only the goal, and the failures or ‘two steps backwards’...

Hey, Friends! Where is your emotional intelligence? Is your emotional intelligence on the experience side of your brain? Or is it on the bookish side of the brain? Did you know that we can know all the things there are to know about emotional intelligence....and still not have it? We can read all the books. We can listen to all the podcasts. We can be totally bookish and smart about it. We can examine it. Define it. Name all the parts of it. But it is not until we are in the correct...

legacy is about leaving our mark in this world we call home. legacy is about connection. it's about living and being vulnerable and authentically YOU. this idea of legacy has been hovering the edges of my mind. i have always loved reading memoirs. i love movies about real people. i sit and walk and listen to the stories of many in my corner of the world. today a lovely woman from Israel shared a bit of her family's journey with me. another spent her life on a journey that led to owning her own...

today i am with a little one while his mamma is at work. we listen to kid songs on my phone. we eat peanut butter by the spoonful. we watch magnet marbles slide and twist down a plastic track made for matchbox cars. the magnets jump together and twirl when they are close. we laugh. my little also got mad. he threw things. we talk about how he feels. he continues to cry. i think about distracting him with the magnets. i don’t. i choose to not move him away from his feelings. i acknowledge the...

"Make time for fitness or Make time for illness" Today this quote caught my eye! The quote accompanied a photo of a strong man holding himself up in the plank position with his face staring directly forward into the camera. Strength and determination and confidence resonate from within, clearly advertising his personal training program. I am not presently looking for a personal trainer, but this advertisement caught my eye! I found the words really made me think! “Make time for fitness, or...

A Tree. Standing. Veiled in time. Without the nutrients of grace and truth. A Tree standing and alone. These branches have born up heavy things. They have blown in the winds of time. They have been tossed and turned and even forgotten. Flooded and hailed upon. Broken and injured. This tree is dwarfed. It has survived, for sure. A few leaves and fruit still flourish within it’s branches. There is a scent of beauty in its determination to stay and stand even in its disfigurement. But It is truly...