Marc & Angel
20 articles
9 Fundamental Rules for Turning Endings into New Beginnings
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end. When you can no longer think of a reason to continue, you must think of a reason to start over. There’s a big difference …
4 Effective Ways to Practice Letting Go Before Life Gets Any Harder
On the average day happiness is letting go of what you assume life is supposed to be like, and sincerely appreciating it for everything it is. Over the past 16 years, as Angel and …
3 Daily Habits that Often Drain 96 Percent of Our Potential in Life
“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.” As you age you will learn to value your time, genuine relationships, meaningful work, and pea…
10 Wake-Up Calls for Days When You Lose Your Motivation (and You’re Unsure of Everything in Life)
“Head up, heart open. To better days!” — T.F. Hodge Struggling to find your motivation? Feeling unsure about everything today? There are just a few things you need to know right no…
12 Things 90 Years of Wisdom Taught Me About Happiness and Life
We are not just what we know, but what we are willing to learn. When my Grandma Zelda passed away a decade ago at the age of 90, she left me with a box of miscellaneous items from …
10 Daily Choices in Life We Will All Regret in 10 Years (if We Aren’t Mindful)
“If only…” Those two words paired together create one of the saddest phrases in the English language. In the end, more than anything else, we regret the chances we didn’t take, the…
10 Daily Habits that Often Drain 96 Percent of Our Joy in Life
You ultimately become what you repeatedly do. If your daily habits aren’t helping you, they’re hurting you. Here are some fairly common and widespread examples of the latter that w…
10 Ways to Remain Calm and Collected When Others Are Out of Control
You can’t calm the storm. What you can do is calm yourself, and the storm will gradually pass. Calmness is a human superpower. The ability to not overreact or take things personall…
20 Tiny Stories About Life to Make You Think, Smile, and Cry
If we have learned just one thing recently, it’s that we need to be gentle with ourselves and others. We’re all in this world together and we all get weary at times. Be recklessly …
7 Daily Expectations that Often Drain 99 Percent of Our Joy in Life
“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.” — Bruce Lee The biggest and most draining disappointments in our daily liv…
3 Timeless Lessons Too Many of Us Learn Too Late in Life
“In elementary school my parents told me it didn’t matter what I did when I grew up, so long as it made me happy. ‘Happiness is the whole point of life,’ my father said. ‘But it do…
8 Things You’ll Inevitably Regret Not Letting Go of Sooner in Life
Oftentimes you don’t even realize you’re blocking your own present blessings by holding on to things so tightly. It’s always necessary to accept when some part of your life has rea…
1 Essential Wake-Up Call for Those Days When You Don’t Feel Good Enough
Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is simply believing you’re worthy of the trip. “Life hasn’t been the easiest on me lately. I won’t get into all the details now, but the t…
5 Essential Things to Start Doing for Your Own Happiness, Inner Peace, and Personal Growth
Today, start by giving yourself grace and remembering not to judge yourself for how long your journey is taking. We all need our own time to travel our own distance. Every step is …
5 Essential Life Lessons We Often Learn the Hard Way
Some of life’s greatest and most essential lessons are the hardest to learn and accept, and yet we must. Because they ultimately allow us to navigate the inevitable obstacles we ca…
20 Little Things in Life 90 Years of Wisdom Told Me to Stop Worrying About
Worry gives little things a big shadow. Some people wait all day for 5pm, all week for Friday, all year for the holidays, all their lives for happiness. Don’t be one of them. Don’t…
40 Daily Quotes for Calming the Mind When You’re at a Crossroads in Life
It happens to all of us gradually as we live and grow. We discover more about who we are and the way life is, and then we realize there are some changes we need to make. The lifest…