Life's Negotiations

I'm the guy you come to for advice.  

I have great insight into people, their behavior and motivations.

I listen well. 

Have you ever come to a point in your life where you think...why am I doing this? 

Whether you call it a quarter-life crisis, a mid-life crisis or simply just an "AHA" moment, these times are telling you to take a leap. 

By Danielle Cococcia Bebarfald with Crystal Blue Weddings.

Leaping for me means jumping into the unknown with fear and with faith.

I joined an online dating website this spring, and it felt less like leaping and more like being pushed over a cliff.

The amazing thing is that I discovered that I had a parachute all along.

"What makes a life worth living?" My husband asked me one day when the rain had fallen for most of the morning and then burst into sunshine by lunchtime.

By Suzanne Saxe-Roux, Ed.D and author of the new book, Courage and Croissants, Inspiring Joyful Living.

This was a question he had been asking himself ever since he left Africa so many years before. He told me that he would catch glimpses of what a life worth living felt like, only to have the idea elude him once again. He wondered whether it was God's way of getting us to pay closer attention and be more conscious of our decisions.  

My motivation to leap didn't come from a desire for change; rather, it came from a feeling of being utterly stuck.

I've been a mother for almost four years, and for two of them, I've been at home full time. Those who know me often hear me say, "I wouldn't want to be anywhere else..."

But, well, I sometimes want to run away.