The Price You Pay for Not Accepting Yourself

A humorous (and at one time very embarrassing) story about how I learned to accept myself for who I was.

Dreaming Is Good For You!

Most of us think that dreams are unimportant, but recent studies show that they may be much more important than we think. We've all woken up trying hard to remember the dream that seemed so important the night before. We feel we could remember it if we tried to tell ourselves that we can't. However, we can all learn to remember our dreams and, once we know how to do this, we can programme them to solve our problems. The best way to try to understand your dreams is to keep a dairy. If you do this, after a while, you notice that you often have the same dream over and over again.

Walking Through the Fire

I believe one of the most amazing gifts of this life of the challenges, and inner and outer, that we're given to propel us into growing as human beings. While we’re spiritual beings, to try to evade the fact that we're also human is to ignore why we’re here to begin with and also to lose the possibility of truly enjoying the gift of being totally and completely human and spiritual at the same time.

Part II - Trust that Bigger Things are in Store for You - Driver's License

Part II of III on trusting that God has bigger plans in store for you if you believe.

Attention!

During a recent hospital stay, the author discovers how much attention is good attention!

Stop Arguing for Your Limitations

Stop focusing on your liabilities, and start focusing on your assets and aspirations, and life will show you a way to make your dreams a reality.

Life's Trade Offs

Today - you will make dozens of decisions. Today - you will receive the consequences of previous decisions. Tomorrow - you will make more decisions. Tomorrow - you will inherit the outcome of yesterday's decisions.

Lessons From Nature--Walking in the Rain

I always liked the pitter-patter of rain as a child. For some reason the sound was always soothing for me. I used to lay awake at night when it was raining outside and listen to the sound of the howling wind and thousands of drops of rain, slapping the concrete sidewalk below and drumming against our flat, tar-papered roof. It would ultimately lull me into a deep, restful sleep. I think that rain has the same affect on me now, even as an adult. When it is rainy I don't feel like going anywhere, or doing anything. I can enjoy just sitting and looking out the window with a roaring fire going in the background and relaxing. Better yet, I can enjoy taking a walk out in the rain. I was visiting my parents in Chester, the town in which I had been raised, the first time I did that as an adult. I covered myself from head to toe in rain gear and good water proof boots, and took a walk during a terrible rain storm.

Accepting When Good Things Happen

Are you the type that worries about any situation, both good and bad?

Duty, Responsibility, Obedience - Words Still in the Dictionary

We cannot do it all, much as some of us would like to do much more, but we can do our fragment of the whole work. We join the work of others who have gone before us and will come after us. Our duty is to do our part resolutely and satisfactorily.

Inspirational Thoughts on Kindness and Love

Our society continues to technologically evolve at a breakneck pace, but at what cost? Has the rush of daily life caused us to forget or de-emphasize traditional themes in life such as kindness and love?

The Power of Determination

The power of determination can never be over flogged! It is not normal to say water will move a rock but the truth is that it is possible!

From Hummingbird to Turkey Buzzard

Billy Sunday was a remarkable man who told it the way it was. Following are a few of his aphorisms that helped change people’s lives. Of course in today’s politically correct atmosphere where we dare not hurt an ant’s feelings, these would not be appropriate.

Plant a Tree (Or, How to Grow your Life with the Law of Attraction)

If you were a tree, then the Universal power of the Law of Attraction would give you exactly what you needed so that you could grow to your absolute fullest potential. When you realize that you and a tree are made up of exactly the same thing, it suddenly becomes apparent that we could all take a good lesson on personal achievement by learning how trees grow!