Excited to work with some very smart, ambitious, centered high schoolers tonight as they focus on creating amazing possibilities for their lives.

“Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.”
Mahatma Gandhi

It is easy and achievable to perpetuate the cycle of hope.  The beautiful thing about this amazing energy is that is transferrable.  When one is feeling extra hopeful, he/she can share it with somebody else. When you personally need hope brought into your life, all you have to do is look around and it will [...]

So much fun talking with the very smart students in Mrs. Reilly’s Class today! Mrs. Brown, thank you for your excellent reading! Very, very exciting news…when asked to give a thumbs up if they liked The SUPERPOWER of ME!…a thumbs down if they didn’t…or  sideways thumb if they thought it was ok….we walked away with [...]

At its core, Sunshine Hope was created to inspire possibility thinking and teach how to utilize the tools of hope to create an amazing life. If we inspire a child, our message is brought home and we inspire a family. By inspiring a family, we inspire a community & a workplace. We [...]

“The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.” Norman Cousins
Norman Cousins was a writer, editor, citizen diplomat, promoter of holistic healing, unflagging optimist and creator of The Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology at UCLA. In researching a talk [...]

As we celebrate this new year filled with new opportunities for growth and development, we are gifted with the perfect opportunity to reassess our approaches to our goals in life and work. Being an evidence based optimist, I often draw on the works of individuals I admire and try to follow their lead. I wanted [...]

“If I had my life to live over, I would dare to make more mistakes next time. I would relax. I would limber up. I would be sillier that I’ve been this time. I would take fewer things seriously and I would take more chances. I’d take more trips; I’d climb more mountains and [...]