by Leisa Watkins | Jan 23, 2017 | Healthy Living
I have struggled with depression a few times in my lifetime. Once as a teenager and again when I had postpartum depression after miscarrying twins. I was drowning in depression. Depression can be crippling. After the miscarriage, I spent much of the time telling...
by Leisa Watkins | Jan 1, 2017 | Goals
After several weeks of pondering what my focus word for the year 2017 would be, I settled on “aligned” as my word of the year. Here is what the word means to me right now and my intention behind selecting that word: I will take action on the things that...
by Leisa Watkins | May 3, 2016 | Happiness
People Continually Seek Happiness Since the beginning of time people have searched for the key to happiness. In fact, there are close to 4 million searches done each month on Google alone by people looking for the keys to happiness. But, happiness doesn’t just...
by Leisa Watkins | Sep 14, 2015 | Creativity, Innovation
In Manage Your Imagination to Increase Your Success I promised to share some tips, insight, and resources on what to feed your imagination. Here’s a habit that can help: Tap into the beauty and uniqueness of life all around you. May I begin my sharing an ah-ha...
by Leisa Watkins | Sep 7, 2015 | Creativity |
All of us imagine all the time. After all, it is our imagination that allows us to play out all the possible scenarios laid out before us and decide on a course of action. “Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities....
by Leisa Watkins | Jun 5, 2015 | Dream Building
I visited The Art Institute of Chicago many years ago and I’ve always wanted to go back. I loved seeing some of the paintings I recognized from the board game Masterpiece that I played with as a child. For me it was an experience I’ll never forget and...
by Leisa Watkins | Mar 15, 2015 | Happiness
Many people come to believe very early in life that life is a game they can’t win. They spend the rest of their lives collecting “evidence” to prove that they are incompetent, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. The spend time thinking about...
by Leisa Watkins | Jan 2, 2015 | Dream Building |
Dream building is vitally important to your goal setting process and personal development. Without a dream you can’t imagine an existence any greater than the one you are living right now! Dreams are a tool to help us navigate through life. They are that...
by Leisa Watkins | Dec 22, 2014 | PERSONAL GROWTH |
If you are familiar with me, and my story, you probably know that I was in major survival mode for a few years. As I tried to regroup after trauma and recover from depression I was simply “in a state of being.” I was living my life fifteen minutes at a...
by Leisa Watkins | Jul 27, 2014 | Happiness |
Have you ever bought into the “I’ll be happy when…” attitude? Sadly, I have far to often in my life. You see, I was unhappy by default. I had failed to act more on the things in life that made me happy and defaulted to the every day and...
