Everyone's Life

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. --Albert SchweitzerTalent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: "Are your ready?"--Johnny

Getting What You Want - By Nancy Nylen

Once you finally figure out what it is that you really want, how do you go about getting it? Do you bribe, manipulate, beg, borrow, steal, acquire it on your own? Or are you one of those lucky people that just seem to have things land in your lap?As a child, we all learn the relentless pleading method. As a 3rd child, my parents were well trained already by this assault and my father had a

Nicest Things You Can Have

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. --Douglas PagelsI just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself. --Lenny Kravitz If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams. --Les BrownOnly when one is connected to one's own core is one connected to others... And, for me,

Self-Motivation: Make Your Life Over This Year - By Dianna Hobbs

Today, I am challenging you to do what it takes to effect change in your business and your life. Be warned. There are no quick fixes. So, put down the fortune cookie and back away from the magazine articles that promise you a new life in just thirty days or less. You must be realistic about your circumstances, responsible for your outcomes and receptive to new ideas and methods this year.If you’

Treasure

Now in my later years I can harvest the wisdom of my childhood. I treasure those precious roots knowing that I have grown wings and I must move on. I must let go. --MacRina Wiederkehr Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them. --Russell H. ConwellLove is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. --H. L.

Express Your Passions Through the Power of Your Senses - By Corrie Woods

Close your eyes and remember a time when you felt vibrantly alive. What comes to mind when you recollect that memory? Perhaps the tingling of your skin, colors or the way light sparkles, a pulsing heart, a smell that curls into your nostrils and transforms into deep satisfaction, or a flavor that makes your mouth pop! Your senses: sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell are portals to rich

Fear Within Us

Love is letting go of fear. --Gerald Jampolsky Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. --Frances Bacon Fear is uselessFaith is necessaryLove is everything! --Martin Sheen To fear love is to fear life. --Bertrand Russell Do the thingsYou believe inIn the name of loveAnd know thatYou aren't aloneWe all have doubts and fears. --Carole

Wanna Succeed - Get Uncomfortable - By Craig Harper

As an Exercise Scientist and Trainer I have spent much of the last twenty-five years helping people change their body. Smaller, bigger, lighter, leaner, more muscle, more flexibility, speed, power... Athletes, non-athletes, kids, mums, dads.....whatever they were after; that's what I did my best to deliver.Early in my career I discovered that whether or not someone achieved their desired goals

Focus On The Solution

Focus on the solution, not the problem.-- Walter AndersonIf you truly feared failure, you'd be very successful. --Barbara Sher Positive thoughts... (joy, happiness, fulfillment, achievement, worthiness) ...have positive results (enthusiasm, calm, well-being, ease, energy, love). Negative thoughts... (judgement, unworthiness, mistrust, resentment, fear) ...produce negative results (tension,

5 Keys to Building a Strong Determination - By Steve Brunkhorst

I saw him sitting on an evergreen branch outside my window as the Saturday morning sunrise lit up the new-fallen snow as it would a carpet sprinkled with sparkling jewels.He seemed so tiny and alone, a silhouette against the dazzling eastern sky. As the sun rose higher, I could see he was a small snowbird, obviously apart from his fellows who usually assemble and play in groups. Joyfully, they

Union Of Spirits

Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond there of virtue. - Samuel Johnson ...the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value. -- Thomas Paine Do not die without having lived. Give yourself the opportunity to show your true color and when you do go, go out in a

Growing Healthy, Healthy Growing - By Susan Wood

I used to think that being healthy had to do with my body—being physically healthy. I thought that taking good care of my body would make me a healthy person. I have come to realize, however, that health has to do with more than just physical health. Health includes four important aspects: emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual. If I neglect any one of these areas, I cannot truly be healthy.

People Who Are Alone

If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But people who are alone when they fall are in real trouble. There is only one way to bring up a child in the way he should go and that is to travel that way yourself.-- Abraham Lincoln By perseverance the snail reached the ark.-- C. H. Spurgeon

Fear Is The Mind Killer - By Mark McGimpsey

Fear.In the words of a sci-fi film, "Fear is the mind killer. There is nothing to fear, but fear itself!"Anyone remember the film? It was "Dune".It has often been said the fear we feel when attempting something new, is the fear of failure, of rejection, or of appearing foolish. It might not be a life-threatening fear, but it has been with us for as long as we can remember.As children, (in my

The Best

With each decision, we should be convinced that we're doing the best we can under the circumstances -- best for ourselves, best for our family, best for our loved ones, and, possibly, best for society as well. --Alexandra Stoddard One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train. --Morihei

Seven Ways to Beat Procrastination - By Jim Estill

I am a student of Time Management and a big part of time management is beating procrastination. We all procrastinate, even those of us who pride ourselves in having good time management skills.From my studies, I have come up with seven proven ways to beat procrastination.1. Do the worst task first: I have used this technique for years. I have even created more than one “first thing.” There is

Lived Life

Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there, the whole aspect of things changes. --Ralph Waldo Emerson Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans. --Peter F. Drucker Activity back of a very small idea will produce more than inactivity and the planning of genius. --James A. Worsham

Getting Older: A State Of Mind Or A State Of Body? - By Craig Harper

A few years ago I turned forty - a scary time for the supreme, alpha male warrior.I’m not sure, but I reckon there’s some correlation between decreasing testosterone levels and increased neurosis and insecurity in blokes.Not me, of course…but I’ve heard it happens to some men."Darl, feel how big my biceps are."Tragic.Embarrassing.There’s a thesis for some Phd. student right there.I don’t know why

The Whale

According to the local news coverage, it all began on Sunday, December 11, 2005, when a fisherman spotted a 50-ton humpback whale tangled up in crab trap lines off the Marin County coast in northern California. His call for help was answered by the Marin Marine Mammal Center, which dispatched a group of Coast Guard divers and whale experts to the site near the Farallon Islands to free the animal.

Let Go Of Your Limitations - By Tim Connor

One of the biggest factors that prevents people from achieving their dreams is their willingness to give in to self-imposed limitations that have been nurtured over the years. Some of the causes of these self-inflicted beliefs are:- A lack of belief in ones abilities and possibilities.- The fear of failure.- The fear of criticism or rejection from others.- A fear of success.- A lack of desire.-

What Goes On Inside

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside. --Wayne Dyer Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. --Theodore Roosevelt Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. --Henry David Thoreau

My Self Improvement Plan – Self Improvement Made Easy - By Ben Ehinger

Are you ready to change for the better, whether it be career, personal, emotional, physical, or spiritual? Changing is a process that challenges us and shows us who we truly are. There is no better way to learn who you are and become a better version of yourself than to come up with a self improvement plan. Here are a few tips to help you put together a self improvement plan.Self improvement

Transforming Experience

To be known and loved is a transforming experience. It calls us from skepticism to belief, from caution to action, from despair to hope. --Larry J. Peacock Too often in our lives accomplishment and doing overshadow growth and becoming. --Linda Dillow All the best transformations are accompanied by pain. That's the point of them. --Fay Weldon

Minding Your Manners - By Carolina Fernandez

This weekend found me in New York City and in Philadelphia, working on my book and catching up with my oldest friend and on some window shopping, too. A good walk down Madison Avenue in the fall is always a good thing. As is a good book store browse, a slow coffee-brownie indulgence in a side street café, and a peek inside an antique shop or two. We did all of the above in spades.There are few

Dream - Goal

A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline. --Harvey Mackay You can never plan the future by the past. --Edmund Burke Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans: it's lovely to be silly at the right moment. --Horace

Dive In - By Jim Gustafson

I learned to swim at the YMCA. I have crystal clear recall of my first "tadpole" class. I remember coming out of the pool with my nose running, skin itching, and eyes blazing red from the environmental wasteland that was the YMCA pool. That pool contained 80% chemicals, 15% water and 5% other which I choose not to think about.The house in which I live came with a swimming pool in the backyard. I

Conflict Cannot Survive

Conflict cannot survive without your participation. --Wayne Dyer Nothing will work unless you do. --Maya AngelouAlways remember that the future comes one day at a time. --Dean Acheson

Are You Happy To Lead A Mediocre Life Just Because Others Do - By Pat Campbell

When we read historical novels, we may laugh at the pointless lives that the gentry of that period led. The well to do who lived centuries ago spent their lives in idle pursuits totally oblivious (in most cases) to the wretchedness of the poor who spent all their waking hours working in return for meagre sustenance. And they were so overly concerned with living their lives according to regimented

Act The Way You'd Like To Be

Cary Grant once said "I've acted like I was Cary Grant for so long that I actually became Cary Grant""Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act." --George W. Crane"Act as if you were already the person you want most to be." --Brian Tracy"The truth is you can acquire any quality you want just by acting like you already have that quality." --Joseph Murphy"Act as though and it

What is Your Choice? Depression or Joy? - By Ab Van Deemter

Looking at your life over the past year does not make you feel very happy. Actually your life does not look so great lately. At work you have this colleague, who seemed a real colleague at first, but has become pure competition now and he or she bootlicks your boss, who even seems to like that. You see all your hopes for promotion within the company being flushed through the toilet and at the