a daily blog on well-being and how to feel better by Mark Barger Elliott…

I received a text this morning from a friend who has a company that provides printed material for companies and events. Apparently a new hospital building has been constructed and no one thought of signage. So for the past three weeks he has led an emergency job installing signs to keep patients from getting lost…

“The real voyage of discovery,” wrote Marcel Proust, “consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” So much of our lives is familiar, and yet it is ever evolving. How might you see your life with new eyes today? —— If you, or somebody you know, is looking to create a miracle…

“Hope is never gone, it is simply ignored,” I read yesterday. It is interesting to think of “hope” as a choice we can make. That hope waits for us to turn to it, pay attention to it, tend to it, even appreciate it. How might you welcome hope into your life today? —— If you,…

“What’s the best that could happen?” read a sign I walked by yesterday. We often try to protect ourselves by imagining the worst thing that could happen. We try to predict outcomes in order to get ahead of events so we won’t be disappointed. But what if we choose another approach? What if we imagined…

I recently came across this remarkable quote from Albert Einstein, “The most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical… He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is good as dead.” This is truly the season of wonder and…

As we launch Miracle Year Project, I’ve enjoyed imagining and writing down a few definitions of what a miracle might be: Miracles are promises nature keeps every day. Miracles are people who love you. Miracles are happiness that grows from faith. —— If you, or somebody you know, is looking to create a miracle year…