When it comes time for your memorial service, what will people say about you? Will their words be of someone who devoted their life to living and service? How would you like to be remembered? Admittedly, the topic of death and memorial services is not one most people want to spend much time looking …
Most of us don’t believe we have any real influence in this world. Yes, we may see an impact on our children (for a while). Yes we may occasionally recognize a contribution we make at work, but that’s about it. This absence of impact on the world leads us to feeling rather ineffective in our …
The first step in any change is releasing the idea that no change is necessary. Put another way, change can only take place when our beliefs in our old limitations end. Our ingrained beliefs are very powerful things. They can actually set up protective barriers to prevent them being released. They are self-protecting and …
No, don’t stop thinking forever, just stop thinking about the wrong things. This weekend I was stuck in miles and miles and miles of traffic; hours worth. I found myself getting quite perturbed, as you might imagine. What saved me from becoming a two minute segment on the TV news about road rage was my realization …
Yes, our memories are fiction; fiction created by our minds to reconcile our experiences with our ability to perceive. When I think back to my early childhood I have a limited number of memories. I remember wandering free in our neighborhood, going to the Swan Boats in Boston with a neighbor, watching Godzilla on a …
