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...
