YOU DESERVE
A GOLD STAR

Hello Gold Star Revolution Squad and welcome to Gold Star Friday! It's time to announce our Star of the Week! My very strong preference is to choose our Star of the Week from reader nominations! However, I will nominate the Star of the Week when there are no reader nominations to pick from, which is the case this week. I would really love to hear about the fabulous people in your life, so please send me your nominations, and please see the end of this post for more details

Hello Gold Star Revolution Squad! I am borrowing the idea for this Tuesday's post from Dr. Rick Hanson. I am a HUGE fan of Rick Hanson, and I strongly encourage you to check out his books, website, podcast, classes, etc. His book Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and Wisdom has made a huge impact on my life! I am also eager to read his latest book, Neurodharma: New Science, Ancient Wisdom, and Seven Practices of the Highest Happiness, which just

Hello Gold Star Revolution Squad, and welcome to Gold Star Friday! It's time to announce our Star of the Week! My very strong preference is to choose our Star of the Week from reader nominations! However, I will nominate the Star of the Week when there are no reader nominations to pick from, which is the case this week. I would really love to hear about the fabulous people in your life, so please send me your nominations, and please see the end of this post for more details

I recently started to take some old books off the shelves and look through them. One that caught my eye was Dan Baker’s What Happy People Know. I read it many years ago, and I'm not exactly sure what made me take it down off the shelf. I guess the universe had a message that it wanted me to hear again! In this book, Dan says, “[t]o be happy, you must overcome fear, and the best way to overcome fear is with LOVE. Many people, though, cannot find their love.” Wow, that last

Hello Gold Star Revolution Squad and welcome to Gold Star Friday! It's time to announce our Star of the Week! My very strong preference is to choose our Star of the Week from reader nominations! However, I will nominate the Star of the Week when there are no reader nominations to pick from, which is the case this week. I would really love to hear about the fabulous people in your life, so please send me your nominations, and please see the end of this post for more details

Hello Gold Star Revolution Squad, and happy Tuesday! For this post, I thought I would mix things up a bit and make my presentation more visual than usual. And I thought that joy would be a totally fun topic to explore visually, right?? We absolutely deserve a gold star any time that we feel joyful! And experiencing joy will without a doubt put us into the mood to bring joy to others by giving out some gold stars! "The trick is not how much pain you feel but how much joy yo

Hello Gold Star Revolution Squad, and welcome to Gold Star Friday! It's time for the Gold Star of the Week award! As I mentioned in my last Star of Week post back in March, it is nice to acknowledge people we don't know all that well (or maybe who we don't know at all!) for small acts of kindness that they perform for us. While it's fabulous to appreciate our family and our friends, it's also important to acknowledge the anonymous people around us who help our lives run smo

Hello Gold Star Revolution Squad! I am finally back after a lengthy break! Hopefully this time I will be back to stay. Buuuut, I didn't do much in terms of writing new posts in the time that I was away. So I know that it won't be easy to keep up with my twice-a-week posting schedule. I will be honest with you – I contemplated throwing in the towel and giving up on Gold Star Revolution while I was on break. I'm just not that good at SEO and social media, and I don't have m