Category: Where the Lightness Lives
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Your Journey to a Lighter, More Positive Life.
In a world that often feels overwhelming, where the noise of the day-to-day can drown out our own inner voice, where do you turn for a moment of clarity, a spark of inspiration, or a gentle nudge in the right direction?
For years, the Something New Every Day blog has been a digital sanctuary for thousands seeking exactly that. It started as a simple intention: to find and share a glimmer of insight in every single day. What grew was a thriving community, drawn together by a shared belief in the power of a positive perspective.
This compilation is a celebration of that journey. It represents the most powerful, resonant, and transformative posts from the blog, now carefully curated and expanded into a trilogy of guides designed to support you on your path to a better life.
Each book serves a unique purpose, yet they all spring from a single, powerful idea—one perfectly captured in the sample post, “Why are people’s thoughts so important?” As you read, you’ll discover that our thoughts are the architects of our reality. They shape our beliefs, our health, our relationships, and ultimately, our future. The good news? We have the power to redesign them.
This collection is your toolkit.
https://amzn.eu/d/5menXqf · In Where The Lightness Lives, you will find the foundation. It’s an invitation to let go of what weighs you down and discover the profound joy and freedom that comes from within. It’s about clearing the space for your true self to shine.
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· With The Can-Do Compass, you will chart your course. This book is your guide to actionable, positive change. It’s filled with practical strategies and motivational insights to help you navigate challenges, set your direction, and move forward with confidence.
https://amzn.eu/d/5gUHD1V Through The Positive Ripple, you will amplify your impact. Discover how your personal transformation doesn’t just change your own life—it creates waves of positivity that touch everyone around you, improving your relationships and expanding your influence for good.
Together, these three books form a complete pathway: from finding inner peace, to taking purposeful action, and ultimately, creating a legacy of positivity.
As the sample post so eloquently reminds us: “Just as the thoughts you embraced yesterday created the life you’re living today, the thoughts you have today are creating your tomorrow.”
Let this collection be your companion in making sure those thoughts are positive, powerful, and purposeful.
Welcome to the journey. Your lighter, more capable, and positively impactful future starts now.
P.S. If you have friends or family who are on their own journey to a more positive and empowered mindset, please feel free to share this post with them. And with the holiday season approaching, remember that this trilogy of books makes for a wonderful and meaningful gift for anyone looking to cultivate lightness, direction, and positive change in the new year. Let’s help each other build a brighter future, one thought at a time.
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The Change You’ve Been Searching For Isn’t Where You Think..
You’ve tried to change your life.
You’ve set the goals, made the resolutions, and searched for answers in new places, new jobs, and new versions of the outside world. You’ve climbed ladders, only to discover they were leaning against the wrong building.It’s time to consider a quiet, revolutionary idea:
The change you’re searching for is not ahead of you. It’s within you.
You carry the same person — with the same fears, the same patterns, the same inner critic — to every new destination. And so, the same problems, the same hills, always seem to reappear. You can’t walk away from your troubles, but you can, step by step, walk your troubles away by building a stronger mind within a stronger body.
https://amzn.eu/d/0DWeal8 This is not about fixing who you are.
It’s about returning to who you are.You were born complete, but life layered on doubts, fears, and imperfect thoughts. The journey back to yourself begins with a single, powerful decision: to change your attitude.
Your attitude is the lens through which you see everything.
It is the difference between a hill and a minor miracle. It is the choice to see a problem as a permanent obstacle or a temporary stone to be carried away. It is the 90% of life that determines how you experience the 10% that actually happens.So, how do you change it?
- Stop.
Stop chasing what you don’t need. Stop feeding the demons of “not enough.” Stop blaming, judging, and living in the future. Stop carrying stones for a mountain you were never meant to move. - Start.
Start appreciating the free and perfect gifts you already have: the air in your lungs, the strength in your legs, the life you’ve been given for nothing. Start with a ten-minute walk and a thought of gratitude. Start seeing the good in people — including yourself. - Own Your Power.
The most important person you will ever meet is the one you see in the mirror. Forgive that person. Believe in that person. That is the source of all your power. Success is not the absence of failure; it is moving from failure to failure without losing the enthusiasm to try again.
The light you are chasing isn’t out there. It’s here.
It was never gone. You simply forgot to look in the one place it has always been: within the mind you are learning to train, the body you are learning to move, and the attitude you are learning to choose.Stop trying to reinvent your life.
Start by rediscovering yourself.
Everything else is just scenery. - Stop.
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Get a New Attitude for Your New Year.
You need to prepare in order to achieve the change that you want to feel inside your mind.
There’s a quiet truth about change we rarely admit:
Most people don’t need a new life.
They need a new perspective.You can change your job, your city, your habits — even your hairstyle — but if the same mind is behind the wheel, you’ll find yourself driving the same emotional roads, just with different scenery.
https://amzn.eu/d/jdolcKr This year, what if you stopped trying to reinvent everything outside of you, and learned instead to rediscover the light that’s already within?
That’s the heart of my new book, Where the Lightness Lives — a guide to freeing yourself from the ghosts of yesterday, the phantoms of tomorrow, and the endless search for “better.” It’s not about fixing yourself. It’s about learning how to see clearly again.
Because the truth is:
You don’t find peace by erasing all the problems.
You find it by training your mind.The chapter titles say it all — The Clean Floor, The Gap in the Machine, The Geography of Loss, The Sober Eye. Each is a doorway back to presence, clarity, and a quieter kind of courage — the kind that lets you live lighter, even when life itself doesn’t get easier.
If you’re ready for more than resolutions — if you’re ready for a new attitude — start with a new awareness.
The light you’re chasing isn’t out there.
It’s here, waiting for you to notice.✨ Where the Lightness Lives — now available.
Begin the year by finding the light that was never gone.
