Many people keep journals or write in diaries, but I was never one of them. Maybe because I didn’t think I had anything worthwhile to say or maybe because I didn’t want anyone to read my thoughts if my journal was lost, I preferred keeping my own counsel. That said, there is much to recommend keeping journals and sometimes I’m sorry that I’m not one of those people who do it. The reason I sometimes regret not having done it …
Let me start out by saying I don’t like emoticons and I don’t use them. My rationale is that I don’t see authors using them in the books I read because they credit the reader with being intelligent enough to read a passage and know whether the author was being sarcastic, humorous, sorrowful, apologetic, angry, pleased, rude, cavalier, or a whole host of other emotional responses. To this day, I have refused to memorize what those silly things mean because …
I read an interesting article about how you should start your day with beautiful, loving thoughts. The author talked about taking a few minutes as you wake up to think about things that are pleasurable. I don’t know about him but, many of us wake up with an intense need to relieve our bladder and, by the time we’re walking out of the bathroom, our minds are filled with our regular thoughts. Then, too, many people wake up to the …
The interesting thing about thinking is that everyone thinks they think. I have listened to the thought process of many people and the sad fact is that so many of them are merely repeating the thoughts of others that they have heard or read about. I posed a question to a man and I was impressed by his answer. It was a well thought out answer and, until that moment, I had not given him enough credit for his thinking …
There are two concepts running side by side: (1) life is all about change, and (2) the more things change, the more they stay the same. I subscribe to the first and doubt the second one. When I think about change, I think about the change of seasons. It doesn’t matter whether you live in an area where you only have two seasons, the dry season and the wet season, or you live in an area where you have winter, …
When I first started studying the principles of metaphysics, I kept hearing about the power of affirmations. I looked around at the people who believed in them so strongly and I couldn’t see where the use of their affirmations had helped them. If my back hurt, it hurt, and no amount of affirmations that my back was healed, or that I was completely healthy, or that I lived in perfect health and wellbeing, made the pain go away. This was …
My dreams have always played an important part of my life. The really meaningful ones are in color and leave memories that are too vivid to forget. They are the ones that prompt me to think about a situation in ways that I hadn’t considered before and to take whatever action is needed, even when I hadn’t realized that an action was needed. When we hear terms like thinking outside the box, most people are tapping into their unconscious mind …
This is one of those horror stories about customer feedback that is so hard to believe, yet it’s true. Whenever you buy something online, you get an email asking you to take a survey and to post your opinion of the product and the customer service you received. You also have the option of posting your feedback online so that other customers can benefit from your experience. But wait a minute. Think again. Apparently, if you exercise that option, you …