October 21st – this week’s interview… … is with Russ Hamel – a teacher of life skills who uses the platform of music to drive home the lessons to his students. He feels that if his young pupils learn life’s most important lessons at the piano, they won’t have to learn them the hard way, [...]
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Ever wonder why so many people have screwed up lives? I mean, there are hundreds – thousands – of teachers providing powerful insights into philosophy, psychology, spirituality and meditation. And yet… Billions of people, all around the world, still live crappy lives. We see starvation, slavery, murder, war, pestilence, human trafficking, pedophilia, rape, domestic violence, [...]
Blessing or tribulation? The things that occur in your life – the events, people and experiences that the Universe brings to you – may light up your life, or they may light the fires of resentment and indignation. Ironically, the only difference is the attitude you bring to the exchange. Here’s a little piece from [...]
Back in my school days my teachers considered me a bright student. I wasn’t, but they thought I was because I was pretty verbal. The sad fact is, when it came to some subjects, I was a total dummy – long before all those dummy books came along (where were they when I needed them). [...]
The law of attraction is like any other power tool. If you’re going to use it, you need to exercise good judgment, and know what you’re doing. Today, guest author Russ Hamel casually dropped a comment in response to the recent article “The REAL Secret to Getting Things Done,” and the comment itself is rich [...]
There are different kinds of people in the world – we’re all aware of that, sometimes painfully so – and especially when our own “commonsense” way of doing things collides with someone else’s interpretation of sensible behavior. “No right-minded person would behave that way,” we tell ourselves… and anybody else who’ll listen. Unfortunately, we’re not [...]
Over the centuries, experts have categorized personalities according to a wide variety of systems. One of the more recent (and useful) of these is the unlikely but surprisingly effective “True Colors” system. Though it has only four divisions, and you’d think that’s not enough to cover the seemingly endless varieties of human behavior, many professionals [...]
Maybe you’ve seen kids growing up in the same family, and yet, despite having virtually identical influences, they’re as different as chalk and cheese. This is so common it shouldn’t even surprise us any more, and yet I still hear folks remarking on it. Somehow such folks seem to expect kids to be cookie-cuttered out [...]
The study of personality types is fascinating territory, especially when we start learning to use the way different types interact with each other. For example, have you ever felt that someone you know – perhaps your partner – can sometimes act uncomfortably clingy or maybe just too damn helpful? Maybe they’re not really. Maybe they’re [...]
