- Every day I’m being the person my dog thinks I am.
Your Personal Emergency Kit
While I was tramping through the Kenyan bush some years ago with my new wife, our safari guide gave our small group specific instructions as to what to do if we encountered certain dangerous animals. "If an elephant charges our crew, everyone has to scatter--they won't bother to chase a lone person." In my head I mapped out what direction I would run and what I would do if my wife tried to team up with me. (Scold Laura nicely, and then run the other way.) "If a rhinoceros charges you, run in a zigzag pattern to confuse them--their eyesight…
- Time is God’s most inspired gift to us, and our most precious inventory.
How to Change Your Life in 11 Days
There was a time when I thought that who I was was what I did. I thought that money made me happy and that life was a destination at station 401K. After I broke my neck and had to learn how to walk and talk and chew gum all over again, I realized that the Holy Grail of life was not something I could buy, sell or hold, contrary to whatever Wall Street or Madison Avenue would have me believe. I now know that the Holy Grail is something I feel, and I call it love. I also learned that…
- This is not a DO world, this is not a DOING world, this is a world of Human BEINGS and it is an I AM and I BE world.
How to Learn to Love Yourself, Rather Than Abandon Yourself
When I was a young woman, I believed that life was about getting - getting love, approval, recognition, validation, money, success... getting what I thought I wanted. But if today were my last day of this planet, getting something would be the last thing on my mind. I would be focused on sharing love. That's it. That's all. That's everything. There is a major confusion in our culture about love. Somehow, most people have come to believe it is getting love from another or others that feels the best, and they spend much energy trying to get love. They try…
- Be a part of something bigger than yourself.
The Peace Within You
Here am I, my beloved child. Come near to me and hear my words, for I am with you, and I love you. I am right here, right now. I am here within you, and all around you. There is no place where I am not. For I am everywhere present. I am within your heart of hearts. I am the breath that you breathe. I am the blood rushing though your veins. I am the very life itself, which gives you life. I am always here, at the heart of your being. I am your heartbeat. I am the…
- Believe in what isn’t… as if it were… until it becomes.
How All Things Spring from Our Thinking
My life works best when my thought is straight. I think every average Joe understands this simple truth. But today I'd like to take this idea several steps further and consider that all existence, all action, all things spring from our thinking. Think negative thoughts; we get negative results. One of my deepest beliefs in life is that the good I do equals the good I receive. So I do know that all that I do in life starts first and evolves from thought, from my thinking. When things start to go bad, I've learned to not try to change…
Step out of your comfort zone, and then applaud yourself for your bravery.
From Women Will Save the World by Absolute Love Publishing
Apply the Golden Rule To Yourself
Most of us have grown up with some version of the Golden Rule that includes doing unto others as you would have them do to you and loving your neighbor as yourself. Most of us think of the rule as encouraging us to be kinder to others. Such thinking is completely backward. We already do love our neighbors as ourselves. The problem is that most of us have never learned to love ourselves and to see ourselves as a source of love. We can never really accept or love anyone else until we learn to accept and love ourselves. Even…
- I once met an old woman on the street as I left early one morning from a home of someone I didn’t love. She looked at me and said ‘It doesn’t have to be this hard.’ She’s right, you know.
Why You Need To Embrace Your Greed
Greed is good. Embrace it. Love it. Live it. In fact, greed may be the one thing that can save us. Don't believe me? Greed was the foundation for this country. The brave souls who risked their life to settle in a new country did so out of self interest. Our forefathers recognized the importance of self-interest in the Declaration of Independence where they emphasized our unalienable right to pursue happiness. Greed is good not just for your own life but for others as well. By elevating your life, you can radically elevate your family's life, your community, and yes,…
- If you truly want to live a good, authentic and rewarding life, you have to internalize the fact that it is your daily choices that decide how your life will turn out.
Embracing Our Global Family
Anyone who has faced the prospects of leaving one's words for posterity for real instead of a theoretical exercise and survives is blessed beyond words. Sharing the following words becomes a privilege and yes, even a responsibility. There is nothing more certain in my mind than we are all members of the family of Man. Over the years it has become commonplace for leaders all over the globe to obscure the light represented by acknowledging that our family, while at times dysfunctional should be guided by love and never hate. The legacy I would like to survive me is that…
- Your words alone can either tear someone down in a matter of seconds or support them for a lifetime. Choose to make a difference with your words and choose your words wisely!
Romancing The Mind
Question: what is 100 x 365? A relatively small number nevertheless, but likely bigger than the number of sunsets that you and I may experience in our lifetimes. Ever watch the changing colors of the light from yellow to purple and wonder how we came to be to experience the sun in all its majesty? What makes the colors, how do we see them, and what does our brain reveal? This is what makes us human and different from a rock. Did you try to ever hug a rock? Not to belittle rocks, but life is short, and every day…
- Free yourself by serving the world- serve the world by freeing yourself.
Meditating from Panic to Peace
"I think I had an unhappy childhood!" I announced to a therapist at the age of 58. It's amazing what my brain had done to hide that fact from me. I'd developed a panic disorder at the age of 15. Terrified of the mental illness and sadness stalking my family, I'd self-medicated in high school, stashing a flask of vodka in my ever-present pocketbook. Over the next forty years, however, with the help of anti-anxiety medication, I managed to build a wonderful life for myself. I married a loving husband, had two beautiful sons, and enjoyed success in several different…
- if you come upon challenges, focus on creating solutions to overcome them rather than being stopped in your tracks.
