BlogHarvesting Happiness: Can a Person Be Happy All the Time?
By Lisa Cypers Kamen. Does a person have to be happy all the time? Can you expect there to be no negative experiences in your life? There will inevitably be…
BlogHarvesting Happiness: The Power of Optimism
By Lisa Cypers Kamen. Optimism can and does make a difference. If you don't believe me, try looking at others around you. By observing others' optimism, you will most often…
BlogHarvesting Happiness: Six Steps to Success
By Lisa Cypers Kamen. Save some money in a "rainy day" fund. Organize your responsibilities each day. You want to have money to spend and a plan for your life-…
BlogHarvesting Happiness: Happiness During the Holidays
By Lisa Cypers Kamen. You are feeling stressed and it seems like you don't have enough time to get everything done during this holiday season. You still have presents to…
BlogHarvesting Happiness: Keeping Resolutions
By Lisa Cypers Kamen. If you find it difficult to keep your resolutions and you have a habit of breaking them, try the following: Make only positive resolutions, such as "Go…
BlogLeading Your Children Instead of Bossing Them
By Kathy Slattengren. Bossing children around tends to produce resistance instead of cooperation. How does the thought of being managed by someone else make you feel? Irritated? Angry? Rebellious? If…
BlogHelping Kids Gain Positive Control Over Their Thoughts
By Kathy Slattengren. How often are your children thinking negative thoughts about themselves? Sometimes you know their thoughts are negative because they blurt out something like "I'll never get this!"…
Blog1, 2, 3… Simple Ways to Reverse the Aging Process (No Purchase Necessary)
By Michele Howe. Sometimes we make things way more complicated than they are. Every marketer tries to sell us a product that includes a promise to reverse the aging process.…
BlogHealthy Choices Today, Healthy Children Tomorrow
By Gail Lynne Goodwin. I am honored to be a part of the Million Moms Challenge, linking millions of moms to mothers in developing countries throughout the world. No matter…
BlogHappy Birthday Mom
My mother would have been 78 years old today, had she not passed away from a very unexpected, very sudden stroke nearly 6 months ago. She went from a healthy,…
BlogThe Present of Your Presence
By Gail Lynne Goodwin. In this holiday season of giving presents, let’s not forget the greatest present we can give to another person… that of the gift of being present. …
BlogKindness- The Gift that Keeps on Giving
By Gail Lynne Goodwin. Each day, with every action or inaction, whether intentional or not, we change the world around us. With every smile or grouchy comment, we affect others…
BlogCreating Your Frazzle-Free Family
Consider the last time your everyone in your family was having fun and not feeling frazzled. What was happening that contributed to things going so well? Below are some of…
BlogHow Do You See the World?
By Gail Lynne Goodwin. What if the world showed up for us in exactly the same way as we showed up to the world? In other words, what if we…
BlogThe Anatomy of Listening Effectively
By Michele Howe. I admit it. I’ve always considered myself a good listener. I was wrong. Not until I read Stephen Covey’s book, The 8th Habit, did I realize how…
Ask a LuminaryCan Gratitude Come Naturally?
"My thoughts of joy and peace are fleeting. Usually I am thinking and thinking. Unable to stop and smell the flowers. Although I do work on feeling grateful. Do you…
Ask a LuminaryDoes the Abundance Theory Really Work?
"Okay all. I've been known at times as the "glass is half full person", but the theory of abundance isn't saving the Arctic, or the homeless, or the abused. I'm…
BlogToday’s Brilliance from Paul Dunn
My Mum is now just over 100 years old. And until four years ago, our relationship was, shall we say, "challenging." Like most Mums, mine believed I was still three…
YouthTurn Your Anger Into Passion
I'm Dallas Jessup and I'm Calling All Heroes Ages 7 to 24: your country and the world need you. I used to think I was unique as a kid who…