Money Can't Buy Happiness (at least after $75,000)

As a society, we tend to equate money with success and happiness to a disproportionate degree, but it’s so ingrained that most of us aren’t aware of it. I could reference countless articles that state after a certain amount of income (approximately $75,000) more money doesn’t actually increase your happiness. The advice it to spend on experiences or things that save you time everyday. We've been trying it out!

Starting Fresh, SustainabilityMeredith LyonsSeptember 16, 2022growthComment

Vacation? You mean go somewhere?

After being shut in for so long, what’s it going to look like when we try and step out? Vacations? Dinners? How’s that working for everyone?

Making friends in the cautious 20s

We moved, started getting settled, things shut down. We’ve still managed to make some new friends.

Friends and Family, Relationships, Starting FreshMeredith LyonsAugust 13, 2021friends, RelationshipsComment

A Time of Transition

I’m reinventing myself yet again. Spring has always been a time of transition, and Beltane is a transition within the transition.

Change, adaptation and growth

I believe there are three types of change, and the way we recognize how we respond to them can drastically affect our lives.

Loss, Mental Training, resiliance, Starting FreshMeredith LyonsFebruary 5, 2021Resilience, changeComment

Aang and Cloud. And Jake, of course.

Adopting Aang and Cloud. Remembering Jake.

Grief, Pets, Relationships, Starting FreshMeredith LyonsJuly 10, 2020Kittens, Pets, Relationships, family, griefComment

Jake; a tale of cat gallbladders, livers and kidneys

This is a pure, unedited, unfiltered picture of Jake. As most of his pictures have been. Because Jake is best unedited.

Friends and Family, Pets, Relationships, resiliance, Starting FreshMeredith LyonsApril 2, 2020friends, family, Resilience, listeningComment

Balancing constant improvement with current contentment

The balance between appreciating where you are and trying improve.

What I've learned after a year of posting a weekly blog.

I believe I’ve become a slightly better writer, and, as with most things, it’s been in ways I haven’t anticipated.

resiliance, Starting Fresh, Mental TrainingMeredith LyonsDecember 27, 2019writing, transition, moving, mental training, ego, New Years Goals, ResilienceComment

Trauma and hindsight. Climbing out of the forest, looking back at the trees.

Lightening doesn’t normally strike twice, but does that mean it can’t? Or are you still just shaken up from the first time.

Mental Training, Motivation, Starting Fresh, resilianceMeredith LyonsNovember 29, 2019Self Awareness, recovery, trauma, mental trainingComment

The impossible task of preparing for the unknown, and why I won't stop trying.

The picture (and embedded video) are all the photographic evidence I have left of a family trip to the Grand Canyon. I had an album of older photos, but I think it must have been a casualty of the fire because I cannot find it. By this time I had written my first novel. Hand written on recycled paper, where it remains. I never made it through putting it into typeface. I like to think this little one would be happy with where she ended up. (Although she would be pissed I hadn’t done something with that historical fiction she wrote at thirteen.)

Mental Training, Starting FreshMeredith LyonsSeptember 26, 2019listening, mental training, growth, Self Awareness, teachingComment

Transitional Eustress

Am I working hard and stressed out? Yes. But I’m carving out a life that I want and think it’s worth it.

Starting Fresh, Relationships, Friends and FamilyMeredith LyonsSeptember 13, 2019eustress, joy, friends, mental trainingComment

The rainforest is burning and the right people don't care. Here's what you can do.

I try not to get political on this platform. I don’t really feel that this is political, as I feel like the planet we live on should transcend politics, but it doesn’t seem that way much of the time. And this is important to me.

Starting Fresh, SustainabilityMeredith LyonsAugust 23, 2019Environment, Self AwarenessComment