About me

Welcome to my personal place of thinking and putting my thoughts into words. I’ve spent a lot of time in my life doing many different things and have allowed myself to learn from others and share my knowledge as well. I have had two careers in my life that I excelled at. I have always been proud of these accomplishments. You see, I am the youngest of four boys and in my earlier adult years, felt I had to prove myself to them. As I grew older, I came to the understanding that I didn’t need to prove anything to anyone but myself. I am my biggest critic and expect nothing less than perfection from myself. I have struggled at times with depression and anxiety, possibly from my high expectations of myself. To make matters worse, I could never take antidepressants, or anti anxiety medications. I had adverse reactions to anything that was mind altering, so I dealt with it the best I could. There came a point in my life that I knew I had to find a way out of that dark deep hole I was in. I decided that I would retrain my brain. I began a daily exercise of telling myself that it was going to be a good day; That there are people out there that have it much worse than me and I need to be thankful for what I have in life. I then would remind myself of all the good things in my life, pushing the bad things out of my mind. It took years of hard persistent thought reprogramming, but I found myself being happier and happier. I am now to a point in life that I help others deal with depression, anxiety and just plain old negative thinking. I do this via social media, but not Facebook. I found that there is so much negativity there, that it overwhelmed the good I tried to do. Now I stick to more local social media and this website. It is my hope that I can help people to become happier and more optimistic. What I have done so far, seems to be working, so I will continue to plug away at it one day at a time.