How God Tells You It's Time for a Change
Years ago, I had a 7-year-old Sunday school student ask me, "How do you know when God is talking to you?" Here's my personal beliefs, inspired by Wayne Dyer...
Getting What You WANT?
We often hear people either discussing what they want, or complaining because they are not receiving their desired results, yet rarely do we discuss whether we are in touch with what we truly desire. How can anyone ever get what they really WANT if they fail to identify and understand what creates that feeling or need? Each of us must commit to being objectively introspective so that we have the opportunity to follow our principles towards inner happiness and satisfaction, because one can only achieve his desired results when he focuses on his needs, and follows his personal truths and...
Blessings and Beliefs
People are mad these days. Mad as hell and don't want to take it any more. I say, good, be mad, but then let it go. Allow yourself to move through that energy and notice how you can shift the circumstances around you by not engaging. And even better than not engaging, how about blessing the person or situation you're mad at?
The People Closest to You
No matter how smart or talented you are, we all need people who can keep us grounded and tell us the truth. Finding the right people to put in your "sacred circle" is the key.
Clutter - It's Not Just About Being Disorganized
I have often found that clients whose homes have been taken over by clutter suffer from more than just the challenges of disorganization. It's as if the clutter becomes a stifling, physical presence in the home or office, completely disabling her from making progress in any particular direction.
7 Ways You Can Kill Your Career
Career killers are character traits that will definitely foul up your career aspirations - if given a chance to pursue your career at all. Every office has a couple or more people with these traits. Do you have them?
What Are You Repeating?
Discover how you may be repeating patterns form your parents and grandparents which are holding you back from success. Have you given any thought about the generational patterns are in your family? Things like abuse, alcoholism, infidelity, and the example above have a nasty tendency to repeat, generation after generation.
Cause and Effect is an ancient Hermetic concept, which states that if you take responsibility for your life, you will gain maximum power. More importantly, you will create more peace and calm in your life.
Are We Teaching Our Children to Bully?
As our political differences have grown to a wide chasm, creating a deep divide in America, people began posting hateful messages about their opposing political party. Not messages citing differences in opinion, but ones that 'call out' anyone endorsing the opposing party, calling them names, blaming them for any event they are dissatisfied with and even taunting them.This practice has assumed a gang-like mentality that bears many resemblances to bullying.
The School of Hard Knocks (AKA Life)
Have you ever heard (or used) the expression, "I went to the school of hard knocks?" This comment is generally heard when someone else mentions their formal education. But in reality, everyone attends the school of hard knocks. This particular school is just another name for Life. How do you intend to graduate?
Meditation and Your Personal Growth: 4 Ways One Helps The Other
If you're interested in personal growth and self-improvement, I'm sure you've come across the idea of meditation as a way to deeper self-understanding, at some point or another. You may even have a good idea of how to do it. Often though, people aren't always able to describe just "why" we should meditate.
Control or Be Controlled: An Abuse Victim's Life Strategy
This article traces the reasons why an abuse victim is always faced with the dilemma of controlling himself or being controlled by others. It also discusses the several methods of control that he employs.
Ask, "What If"
We can keep from doing the same tired things in the same tired ways by asking ourselves, regularly, "What if... ?" The subconscious tries to make things automatic, but there are some things that should not be automatic and should be given a great deal of thought. Some things need to be done on purpose.
Create a Mission Statement for Your Life
Do you know your core values? Do you feel you live by these values? This article gives you an easy way to find out what your values are, reflect on whether you live by them and create a mission statement that you can follow as your guide to achieving a fulfilling and happy life.
Wrestling With Shame in Your Life
Shame is an emotion and a state of being. It also involves judging your own worth or being judged negatively by someone else. All of these show up when shame enters your life. Your thinking, emotions and state of your soul invariably become intertwined with shame.
An inspirational look at how one journalist, assigned to Cincinnati's dangerous 'Over the Rhine' in the 80's, altered perception of the people led to a surprising and positive change. What could happen if each of us became a little light in a dark place?!
Is Love Quantum?
What is this thing we call love; that emotion that all of humanity strives for? Look closely at all the emotions you experience about the person you love, truly love, and then imagine all of those characteristics in every part of your world. Now you understand the meaning of quantum!
The Alternative Guide of What to Do When Your Plan Isn't Going According to Plan
There is a plethora of information out there about planning and strategy - how to do this and how to do that... But what do you do when your plan doesn't go according to plan?
How Do You DIFFER?
Do you strive to be like everyone else, or do you prefer to seek ways to distinguish yourself, and become different in a positive, meaningful and significant manner? Is your primary motivation to fit it and become part of the proverbial in crowd, or is your goal to become your personal best, and do things in a better, more impactful or perhaps powerful way? Each of us faces this choice in nearly everything we do every day, and only a few opt to DIFFER.
What Is Your CLAIM To Fame?
Have you ever considered, or seriously contemplated what makes you different in a meaningful way from others? How do you distinguish yourself, and what skills, attitudes and ideas do you possess, and even more essentially, use on a regular basis to become consistently better than merely the norm? Are you satisfied with simply being good enough, or like everyone else, or is your goal and mindset to do things better, perform, and be more effective than the vast majority of others?
When Silence Speaks
We are living in a noisy world and that noise is badly polluting our planet earth. You may not be in a position to control the outside noise but you can control the unnecessary noise in your own life.Silence gives you the courage and strength to deal with the daily routine matters. It's also a great motivational force that enables you to get rid of all the negativity from within you.
Develop Your Strengths: A 4 Step Plan
Each of us is special. You have your unique strengths and talents - and I have mine. Of course, some are more apparent than others, but we´ve all got them. So let me ask you something... Do you know what yours are and are you actively working to hone and develop them?
How Good Is Your Personal BEST?
In nearly every endeavor, regardless of whether it relates to our business, professional, or personal lives, or how we eventually feel about ourselves, one of the most distinguishing features or characteristics is the willingness to pursue your personal BEST! While many of us affirm that we approach things with that mindset, unless we objectively define what doing so means to us, and why, as well as whether our best is truly good enough, we risk trivializing the meaning and impact of this. The exercise must commence with being willing and able to be objectively introspective, rather than viewing ourselves with...
That Silent Killer: Loneliness
Research has shown that loneliness is widely prevalent throughout society among people in marriages, relationships, families and successful careers. It has no boundaries. Now days, it's almost at epidemic levels and continues to rise in frequency around the world. How is your loneliness factor? Do you lack companionship? Do you find yourself becoming increasingly isolated? Take a few moments to read today's featured article.
How to Successfully Control Your Emotions
Intense emotions can arise at the most inopportune times, with the capacity to overwhelm you when least expect it. Your mind shuts down and instantaneously you're a deer in the headlights. Frozen and consumed by the emotion. Have you ever experienced the intensity of emotions such as anger, anxiety or fear? It seems there is little we can do to reason with the emotion as it floods the mind and body with its raging intensity.
Love and Loss: Guiding Others Through the Dark Night of the Soul
Loss is inevitable. To surrender means to open to an acceptance of what is. If we can begin to move toward the fear, the power of loss can transform us.
13 Things to Remove From Your Life, To Be More Happy, Focused, and Engaged in the Moment
Sometimes in our lives we walk right past the clutter. When we stop seeing or using them they no longer serve us and really take away from our focus. Learn how to recognize your own clutter and learn why having clutter in your life does not serve you.
The Light We Run To
The light we run to... What is it? What is that magnificent light we hear about, and some have even seen in those near death experiences? Where and what are we running to?
5 Wonderful "Whys" To Cultivate Habits Of Excellence
Just as one may become a criminal by frequent association with crime, so the mind takes on the nature of the influences which dominate or fascinate it. This understanding motivates us to cultivate positive emotions assiduously.
PFT - Previous Failure Thinking
When we're feeling stuck, we often dwell on past failures. But there's no such thing as a failure. The universe is simply urging you into a new direction.
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