When we struggle against all those “bad” habits of ours, it may be that we’re utterly on the wrong track. In fighting evil, what do we have front-and-center in our minds? Yep, the very thing we want to banish from our lives. And as every teacher has tried to show us, we get what we [...]
We tend to want stability in our lives – and that’s a good thing, right? We want a job or business we can depend on, a spouse and friends who are steadfast and loyal, and health that doesn’t spring sudden, nasty surprises on us. On the other hand, we’ve also heard that “change is inevitable” [...]
Want more prosperity in your life? Okay, but first, you gotta stop thinking it’s all about money. That may be hard to accept when the bill collectors are beating down your door, but truly, money is just a symptom, not a cause. You’ll need to make a mental shift in areas that you may not [...]
There’s so much anger in the world. And much of it seems to be already primed, cocked and needing only the gentle nudge of a hair trigger to fire off at whoever gets in the way. It can be worth your life to piss somebody off on the freeway or at the post office. And [...]
Nobody tells a story with the same flair as Susan Minarik of the HighonHappiness blog. This time it’s a true tale that actually happened to a friend of hers – a friend who was facing Christmas with no money and the prospect of telling her son there’d be no presents that year. I think you’ll [...]
We spend a lot of time being polarized between like and dislike, want and don’t want, love and hate. In other words we are constantly being swept this way and that by a head full of opinions that bring with them powerful emotions, flooding us with their backwash. When there’s something we feel a strong [...]
If people are constantly disappointing you, it’s not their fault. If they’re forever irritating you, getting in your way, arriving too early, too late or somehow doing things to inconvenience you, this also is not their fault. As we recognize, you and I are living in the world we create from the thoughts we habitually [...]
