Have you ever found yourself saying “I will be happy when I have enough money to pay my bills?”, Maybe you have heard yourself saying you will be happy when you get a new job, a new car, a new spouse, a new home. The truth is if you are not happy with who you […]
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Nothing truly exists. Can you embrace this idea? We have walked up to this idea step by step. If you have yet to read the two previous blogs, please do so now so we can be on the same page. If nothing truly exists except where we give our attention, then how truly real is whatever
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Sometime in my past I was told a common Native American belief was that when we die, everything and everybody else ceases to exist. Maybe this is a common Native American concept, maybe not, but if we follow the premise and add my previous blog to the equation, the idea does not seem all that
Tonight I watched Peyton Manning throw touchdown pass number 509. This was an impossible task, except for Peyton who did not recognize the term Impossible. Same thing for the man who held the record before Peyton the sky was the limit. Who makes an accomplishment impossible? We do. Who makes an accomplishment possible? We do.
Let’s make this clear right off the bat; no one, no thing, no event, can ruin our day. Unless of course we allow that to happen. Certainly it is easier to blame others for how we are feeling, easier to blame events for creating our mental outlook, yet without exception events and other people can
Today I participated in the final send-off of a dear friend of mine. At times like this I think the most important realization we can embody is; how many people we impact in our daily lives. It may seem sometimes that we go through life not making much of an impact on anything. That was the
Last time we discussed expectations and how they can blow up in our faces. There is a companion to expectations which is just as fraught with danger. I speak of Assumptions. If I assume you are going to do something: if I assume you understand what I just said: If I assume you are in
Expectations are like opinions, we all have them. Too often we have them about and for other people. The problem is, we do not share with them that they must live up to our expectation, or even what that expectation is! This, my friends leads us down the road to anger and discord. How can I live
It is time for that meeting you have been dreading. The scheduled speaker brings to mind an especially uncomfortable dental procedure without benefit of anesthetic. Not going will put your job in jeopardy, there is no way around the meeting, and standing up to shout “Oh, just shut up, well, that’s just a bad idea.
We, you and I, and every other creation is energy. That energy vibrates at specific levels, which produces what we see as ourselves. Because we are energy, we are subject to the ups and downs of energy supply, just like the power grid which supplies our homes. Many of us have installed energy efficient lighting
