Feedback

Most self-awareness books instruct us to value feedback from others. Those of us who are insecure may take one comment and agonize over...

Rosanne Bostonian

Nov 27, 2017

Thanksgiving…

With Thanksgiving right around the corner, I remember my American History lessons about the Native Americans (referred to as Indians in...

Rosanne Bostonian

Nov 22, 2017

Love…the Verb

The energy of Love has to be taken into action now more than ever. We must love, love and love some more. The proprietary sense of what...

Rosanne Bostonian

Nov 11, 2017

The Legacy Tour

People always talk about their Bucket Lists. My bucket is already pretty full, so I’m figuring my next chapters will be more like a...

Rosanne Bostonian

Oct 29, 2017

From Miss to Ma’am

Somewhere in the obscure timeline of life, people stopped calling me Miss and started calling me Ma’am. I don’t remember when this...

Rosanne Bostonian

Oct 23, 2017

The Soul of Vibrational Sweetness

Those of us who treasure animal companions know this; they embody the soul of vibrational sweetness. This is true if living with humans...

Rosanne Bostonian

Oct 16, 2017

Self-Concept

If you want to predict how successful a person will be in life, unscrew the top of their head and pull out their self-concept. What we...

Rosanne Bostonian

Oct 7, 2017

When No One is Watching…

Our values show themselves when the audience isn’t around. I’m teaching a course (Human Relations) in which a central theme is what...

Rosanne Bostonian

Sep 30, 2017

E Pluribus Unum

The literal interpretation of “E Pluribus Unum” is one out of many. Politically and personally we need to understand that the concept of...

Rosanne Bostonian

Sep 9, 2017

Being Loved. Being Love.

Being loved is what we live for, and we recruit all sorts of scenarios to accomplish the precious feeling. If we haven’t felt deserving, we

Rosanne Bostonian

Aug 16, 2017

Sir Isaac Newton’s Third Law of (E)motion

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction… Or simply said from the psychological perspective “You cannot touch without...

Rosanne Bostonian

Aug 8, 2017

Appearances...

There was a time in my life that “if it felt good, it WAS good, and if it felt bad, it WAS bad.” I guess I was living like a member of...

Rosanne Bostonian

Aug 2, 2017

Energy

There are two kinds of energy, potential and manifest. Before you think this is going to be boring, bear with me! Potential energy is...

Rosanne Bostonian

Jul 21, 2017

Humor in Every Moment

My father was an artist and didn’t realize he was funny. He had the ironic type of humor that let him laugh at life and even at death. I...

Rosanne Bostonian

Jul 5, 2017

Patina

I was speaking to a friend about his intrigue with “patina” on furniture and building materials. Patina is the signs of weathering that...

Rosanne Bostonian

Jun 14, 2017

Servant or Slave

I was recently contemplating the words servant versus the word slave. In spiritual life, it is often said that we are servants, or those...

Rosanne Bostonian

May 24, 2017

Expansion and Contraction

I was watching a Discovery Channel program about the Universe. There are apparently two forces in nature that dictate balance among the...

Rosanne Bostonian

May 17, 2017

“Love Songs to Myself”

It’s taken me a long time to discern the difference between being self-absorbed and self-appreciative. I think I always shied away from...

Rosanne Bostonian

May 8, 2017

“Wherever You Go, Go With All Your Heart.” - Confucious

A life with no passion isn’t a life fully lived. Too many walk through life like zombies waiting for something to happen and for someone...

Rosanne Bostonian

Feb 16, 2017

“Thrown to the Curb”

There are a few expressions that have become popular referring to being disrespected or discounted. You can be “thrown under the bus,”...

Rosanne Bostonian

Jan 11, 2017

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