My friend’s mother was coming for a visit. I thought he would be excited but, instead, he just shook his head and bemoaned the fact that while he had to work from his living room, his mother would be organizing the rest of his tiny apartment. “What’s wrong with that?” I asked. I sometimes wish I didn’t live in such a large house because I never seem to have it organized and the thought of magic elves organizing all my …
Your friends and total strangers may know more than the experts about almost everything and, with so much information out there, you can pick and choose whose advice to take about almost anything.
The thing I have heard the most during the years I have been counseling clients is, “I want to be happy.” I have heard that refrain even more than I have heard, “I want to find my soul mate.” Even when people are tired of living alone, they want to be happy more than they want to find a partner. I came across a quote by an unknown author who said, “When I was in grade school, they told me …
The human spirit is a remarkable thing. No matter how often people or circumstances try to crush it, with the least little bit of hope it springs back to life. We see this trait in revolutionaries. No matter how tired they are and how hopeless their cause seems to be, when they see the smallest glimmer of hope, they reach inside of themselves for that extra burst of energy and that extra ounce of determination and continue fighting. We have …
I have always loved sharing resources. If I learn something, I want to tell everyone what I learned if I think it will help them. If I find out that a treatment they are considering lists a contraindication, I want to make them aware of it. If find out that there is a natural remedy for something that their allopathic medicine is causing adverse side effects, I want to tell them what it is, how much it costs, who sells …
When I was twelve, my father said to me, “When a person is born, it’s like taking a stone and throwing it into a pond. It makes a big splash and people gather around to talk and celebrate. They watch as the stone makes an eddy in the pond and then they leave and go about their daily life. That was you when you were born. Everyone was excited; they came and brought presents to celebrate your birth. “When a …
There have always been different theories about luck. Thomas Jefferson said, “I’m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” Most of the successful people I know say they make their own luck yet many of the books that I’ve read talk about being in the right place at the right time. So, which is it, or is it simply a matter of being in the right place at …
Have you ever noticed that when things are going well for you and you project a feeling of satisfaction and gratitude, more and more good things keep happening to you? Conversely, when you hit a rough patch and you let it take over your life, more and more bad things keep happening to you? If you are skating and you start to lose your balance, it’s a lot harder to get up from the ground than it is to correct …
If anyone had ever told me that you can gain weight from reading, I would have scoffed at them. Several pounds later, I’m no longer scoffing. It all started with a six-book series that I am reading. When I know an author is going to be writing a series, I buy the books as they come out and I save them up until I have them all. This can take a few years but that doesn’t matter to me because …
Almost everyone, the world over, has had the experience of making plans to go somewhere, getting dressed up, and then having the plans fall through at the last minute. Disappointment doesn’t begin to cover it. It doesn’t matter if it’s a date with the love of your life or if it’s a celebratory occasion, or even if it’s just an evening out with friends, the disappointment can still be crushing. You are mentally psyched up to having a good time …