Purpose Archives - Barbara Demone https://www.barbarademone.com/tag/purpose/ Good Morning, Life! Mon, 04 Mar 2024 19:39:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 182790552 My New Year’s gift to you https://www.barbarademone.com/my-new-years-gift-to-you/ https://www.barbarademone.com/my-new-years-gift-to-you/#comments Sun, 07 Jan 2024 02:03:13 +0000 https://barbarademone.com/?p=5006 It’s the beginning of a new year and I wish you a happy year. I have a gift for you that I hope will help it be so. Although we may not have met, know that you’re important. As you’re reading this, and if you’ve read Good Morning, Life! or any of my social media...

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]]> https://www.barbarademone.com/my-new-years-gift-to-you/feed/ 1 5006 The Courage to be Disliked https://www.barbarademone.com/the-courage-to-be-disliked/ https://www.barbarademone.com/the-courage-to-be-disliked/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2023 01:10:06 +0000 https://goodmorninglife.net/?p=3992 I’ve learned from research that as social beings, connection and feelings of belonging are strong drivers for our happiness. So when a friend introduced me to the book The Courage to be Disliked, which claims to change our life and show us how to achieve real happiness, I was intrigued. I dove into the book...

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]]> https://www.barbarademone.com/the-courage-to-be-disliked/feed/ 4 3992 Purpose – Part 2: Aligning purpose and happiness for success https://www.barbarademone.com/purpose-part-2-aligning-purpose-and-happiness-for-success/ Sun, 27 Mar 2022 23:37:20 +0000 https://goodmorninglife.net/?p=1709 With a clear purpose and vision, our life and business can soar and happiness can be at the core. In Part 1 I shared my personal vision statement as we dove into the importance of being clear on our purpose and its relation to happiness and success in life. Just like individuals, a company’s success...

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]]> 1709 Purpose – Part 1: What’s your end game? https://www.barbarademone.com/purpose-part-1-whats-your-end-game/ Sat, 19 Mar 2022 14:45:17 +0000 https://goodmorninglife.net/?p=1681 With a clear purpose and vision our life and business can soar, and happiness can be at the core. I just finished reading the book Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh, the late CEO of Zappos.com. Zappos is a successful company (purchased by Amazon in 2009 for $1.2 billion) known for its workplace culture, where happiness...

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]]> 1681 How I learned to tame my anxious energy https://www.barbarademone.com/how-i-learned-to-tame-my-anxious-energy/ https://www.barbarademone.com/how-i-learned-to-tame-my-anxious-energy/#comments Sun, 12 Dec 2021 02:50:00 +0000 https://goodmorninglife.net/?p=1236 I realized that I have an anxious energy problem during my first coaching experience. It came early in my career when my company had a Life Coach, Joshua Zuchter, come in to deliver a wellness session. He was engaging, insightful and full of optimism, hope and positivity. When he offered a complimentary one-on-one coaching session,...

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]]> https://www.barbarademone.com/how-i-learned-to-tame-my-anxious-energy/feed/ 2 1236 You are the CEO of Your Life: Perspective is everything https://www.barbarademone.com/you-are-the-ceo-of-your-life-perspective-is-everything/ Sun, 17 Jan 2021 21:05:53 +0000 https://goodmorninglife.net/?p=425 Do you ever feel like you have little control over things in your life? In a previous blog post, I share how the current pandemic has taught me that I don’t have control over many things in life outside of myself. Happily, I’ve realized that there’s something I control. In fact, I have a very...

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]]> 425 The Good Place – a show that gives perspective to life https://www.barbarademone.com/the-good-place-family-show-for-happiness/ https://www.barbarademone.com/the-good-place-family-show-for-happiness/#comments Mon, 28 Dec 2020 19:51:14 +0000 https://goodmorninglife.net/?p=343 We found a fun, family show that addresses my favourite topic – happiness. We are always trying to find great TV shows that we can watch together as a family. With two boys (13 and 10 yrs old), along with my husband and I, it is always a challenge to find something we all enjoy....

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