This is the time of year where you are probably considering your New Year’s goals. Maybe they have to do with goals you made last year but lost interest in or just gave up on over time. Maybe you accomplished last year’s goals and are looking for new accomplishments. Either way, you’re now facing the [...]
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” – Henry Ford Would you like to be able to look at the world differently? Would you like to develop a more positive outlook on life? Would [...]
“Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have.” – Doris Mortman For many years I had a hard time accepting myself and I struggled with how I fit in the world. This resulted in me making lots of poor choices. I was what Red in “That 70’s [...]
“I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, ‘Where’s the self-help section?’ She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. – George Carlin According to a Native American legend, as the world was being made the spirits of the world needed to decide where to hide the secret of happiness. They [...]
Letting go and forgiving people who’ve wronged you is easier said than done. Sure, it will help you achieve inner peace, but while the benefits of doing so are many, actually doing the deed is a lot harder than it looks. There’s more to learning to forgive and let go than meets the eye. With [...]
“Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.” – Agatha Christie Do you sometimes feel as if you don’t have enough control over your life? Does it seem like you keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again? This can be very common because our lives revolve around our habits, what we [...]
“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or grater benefit.” – Napoleon Hill There is a story about a man who found a cocoon of a butterfly. After watching it for a few days, he saw a small opening appear. The man sat in amazement watching the butterfly [...]
Some days you feel so stressed out as if you’re on the brink of insanity. It might interest you to know that there are ways to get around the stress and improve your overall health status. The strategy involved calls for a deep breathing exercise. Curious About Relaxation Breathing Exercises Deep breathing simply put, involves [...]
“In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.” – Cicero About this time of year I begin to think about my mom. She passed away a few years ago and her birthday was on Columbus Day (October 12). For most of her life she was an intelligent, quick witted [...]
There was a study conducted where a group of children that were determined to have average intelligence was divided at random into two equal groups that were then assigned to two teachers. One teacher was told that the children were “gifted.” The other teacher was told that the children were “slow learners.” A year later [...]
