2016. How long will it take you to remember to use the ’16 as you write your checks and fill out paperwork? I always get a great laugh as I watch myself adapt to the new year. And as I wrote on Wednesday, resolutions are something which can work for us, or against us, so if […]
What is the purpose of life? Why do we walk this planet? What is happiness? Philosophers over the eons have pondered these questions; poets and romantics have filled countless volumes with their thoughts too. Do you have an answer to these questions you are comfortable about? The reason I ask is because it is my
I think we all have a tendency to want to understand what is going on around us. I will go even further to suggest that it is the feeling we do not understand what is going on which is the most frightening and maddening aspect of life. Unfortunately it is this desire to understand events
Sure, what else are you going to expect from a guy who titles his book It’s All About Me?- but let me ask you this; do you love yourself? Do you love yourself enough to stop being a victim of life? Do you love yourself enough to do healthful things in your life? Do you love
Want to know why your life is so wonderful? Take a moment and think about what you are thinking about right now. Want to know why your life is not working the way you would like it to work? Take a moment and think about what you are thinking about. If your first response to
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Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness, that’s what the Bill of Rights say are our rights are as Americans. Life; well I presume you have that. Liberty; you chose to read this, so we are good there, but what about happiness? Here is my simple recipe for happiness; ask yourself every night; “how am
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My sweetheart Jeannette and I have had this discussion many times, and Henry Miller is quoted as saying it so well: “One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.” Too often we get caught up thinking that the whole purpose of life is to achieve a goal. That is an example
All the books about success tell us to set a goal and work unswervingly toward that goal to achieve success. They tell us to accept nothing but exactly what we want or we are failures waiting to happen. Now I ask you, in your career, or in your life how many times have you set
Everyday, life offers us so many opportunities to get distracted from what is truly important in our lives. The busyness of our work, the demands of supporting our families, those things which come up which affect us emotionally, even our concern about how our bodies look can become part of the whirlwind. Ironically we do
This phrase “dysfunctional family” is one which has stuck in my craw for some time. First it requires a judgment about the validity of someones life. Even if you are in that family, you only see a very narrow range of what is going on. Second, it does not matter how the family is functioning,
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