You want to be happy. I want to be happy. Everyone wants to be happy. “Happiness”, according to Aristotle, “is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” How is it, then, that the rates of depression in the U.S. are ten times higher [...]
Dr. Martin Luther King\’s famous speech I Have a Dream is well known by many. Yet, from my experience as an executive coach, many adults have lost the ability to dream. They have become so entangled with the day to day aspects of life, not to mention all the negative conditioning associated with [...]
Lao Tzu wrote At the center of your being you have the answer, you know who you are and you know what you want. Everyone has the ability to find the answer within. However, the real issue is understanding the who, the what and the how to be able to discover the answer from [...]
Norman Vincent Peale wrote: Change Your Thoughts and Change Your World. What a great thought to begin the each day, each workweek, each weekend! Just imagine if you could change one thought that is keeping you from success, what would that mean for you?
Our thoughts or more importantly our attitudes that stem from our beliefs [...]
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Why do we have so much paper? People have been talking for years about the “paper-less society”. When will it actually happen? Here are some observations about paper and our habits surrounding paper to help get it under control.
Well, I am not sure that we will ever be able to achieve a [...]
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
‘The Secret’ is not so secret anymore. In fact most people have now heard about its key message … the Law of Attraction. This philosophy states that we create our reality, both good and bad, by what we focus on. In other words, we attract our life results by what we think.
We’ve seen [...]
Sunday, November 11, 2007
For the past months my husband and I have been standing in prayer for a friend that is going through a very stressful situation in her life. We have been her mentor for many years.
She is one of those special people that receives and follows instructions to a tee. That is very rare. There are [...]
Saturday, November 10, 2007
What is it that makes you do what you do? Have you ever wondered if there is a better way to live your life? Today you are going to discover yet another key to a successful life. The reasons you make choices and those choices lead to actions.
In this world there are [...]
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The following account of these two rascals is so funny! But seriously, as we laugh at the plight of these little fellows, we might ask ourselves, how do we represent God to others? Is He a severe, unrelenting and unforgiving Being who cannot be placated, or is He a Father who cares what we do [...]
Thursday, November 8, 2007
There are times when our experience of life can seem unreal or surreal. I went through a traumatic experience when I was younger. During that experience, I found myself at times feeling removed from reality also. Sometimes, when we are surrounded by lots of new stimulus and when we have a great deal of unusual, [...]