Every Monday, you’ll find me over at APOOO Bookclub writing Motivation Monday. Today is my debut post, Every Ending Is Also a Beginning. Come on over and leave me a comment, won’t you? Then take a minute to poke around APOOO - if you’re a reader, you’ll be like a kid in a candy shop!

I want to share with you one of my favorite attitude adjusters of all time. It has not only great music, lyrics with a strong message, but visual images that complement both. Do you have 3 minutes and 31 seconds for some uplifting empowerment today?

For a long time, my ‘need to know’ was the driving force behind everything I did, because the more I knew -> the less surprises there were -> the more secure I felt, in general -> the happier I was.

It’s fine to seek the opinion of others in the process of forming your own. We all learn from each other in that way, and that’s a good thing. It’s fine to enjoy the recognition of others for things you do well, but there’s only one person’s approval you really need: your own.

When you find yourself in a dark place in life, your worst fears realized, your options seemingly gone - there is hope if you can realize that you are also in the best position - finally - to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

June 10 & 11: Breaking Out of Our Self-Made Prisons Join us this month as we explore how to look past the surface of situations and find opportunities to break free of our self-imposed limits.

Whether the song brings to mind for you Buddy Holly or the Rolling Stones matters not. You might not even know the song, at all. And don’t worry, I’m not going to go off on a long diatribe about the twisted ways in which songs like this skew our image of self. Nope. I’m gonna leave it alone. This time…