So have you searched for the great, universal meaning of life? And has it eluded you? Well, I have some bad news and some good news. The bad news is, there isn’t any intrinsic meaning… at least there’s no meaning out there in the world around you. But the good news is, if life is [...]
Do you have a refuge in your mind? A place where you can go to feel relaxed and safe from the tensions that fill your daily life? Everybody has one – maybe more – but most folks never get in the habit of using their place fully. And if you’re not sure you have such [...]
How long can you stay positive before it gets away from you? For years you’ve heard spiritual teachers say that your thoughts determine how your life will go. Every self-help and positive thinking book since the dawn of publishing has told us that. More recently, popular movies like “The Secret” and “What the Bleep Do [...]
Ever visited Arina Nikitina’s Self Help Blog? She’s an interesting and unusual lady with a surprising list of achievements – and at such a young age. I was fascinated by the following statements on her blog’s “About” page: Since early childhood I was amazed at people’s abilities to make simple things sound complicated and boring. [...]
Self help is not mysterious. It’s not even difficult. It all boils down to a few commonsense things. Once you know these few things, there’s not much excuse for ever feeling helplessness, frustration, anger or fear ever again. First principle: Know what you want. Second principle: Know why you want it. With those two facts, [...]
When the mess hits the fan, what’s your standard reaction? Do you worry, obsess and panic? Or perhaps you don’t even wait for things to go wrong. Is worry your constant state of mind… just because you’re convinced something WILL go wrong? If you often find yourself with an oversupply of anxiety and frustration in [...]
Harmony is a good thing. And as human matters go, it’s a lot easier to reach than some goals… such as perfection. Even though harmony has varying degrees of attainment, however, it’s relatively easy to know when you have some and when you don’t. Anytime your nerves are consistently calm and your satisfaction with your [...]
These days, my emails bring me waves – floods – of launch announcements. And they all seem to come with free (but long and time-gobbling) videos, fortified by earth-shaking (cleverly retitled but same-ol’-same-ol’) systems. In a recent one-week period, I received invitations to watch free videos totaling nearly 18 hours. That’s insane. And that’s when [...]
Regular contributor Peter Vajda has a talent for asking good questions. In fact, he usually closes each of his articles with queries that help us focus our attention more clearly on the issues he raises. This week is different. This time, Peter mostly skips the commentary and moves directly to some especially powerful… Questions for [...]
Okay, I admit it. Sometimes I overindulge in information. I collect books that may or may not get completely read. And it’s even worse with ebooks – I currently have hundreds them (plus multi-gigabytes of MP3s and downloadable videos) clogging up my external hard disk. They always sound so important – so essential to have [...]
