Archive for July, 2008

Everyone in this world has suffered from depression at some point in their lives. It is almost impossible to find a person who has never experienced sadness or misery in his or her life. With life becoming more demanding in today’s competitive world, more and more people are feeling stressed and worried out. This then [...]

Now that you have flushed your DO NOT WANT list down the drain and have only your DO WANT list remaining, take a moment to reflect on what you have just done. You have taken a huge step toward re-taking control of your mind power that approximately 95% of the population will never take!
It is [...]

While making up a menu recently a thought struck me that my dinner preparations and goal accomplishments were similar. I will sit down and think about what I want to do, be, change, or have and come up with some goals that will help get me what I want. This is just like planning my [...]

It’s sad but true that not a single person can avoid contact with difficult people. They can be anywhere – and some unlucky people would swear that they are just about everywhere. Your immediate superior at work, a customer in your store, your seatmate on the bus – maybe even the person you wake up [...]

Many of us find ourselves in the position of creating very little, if anything at all, however desperate we are to be creative. The longer we go without creating, the harder it seems to get back on our artistic horse and gallop bravely onwards. In fact we’re so despondent and dejected we’d be grateful of [...]

In our society, it’s easy to fall into the thinking that it’s just not our fault. From the quality of our finances to our personal relationships to our problems at work – we want to believe that it’s not us causes the problem. It’s our spouse or children. It’s because our parents raised us this [...]

A man once wrote to Warren Buffet, who ranked number one in Forbes 2008 rich list. He asked him, ‘If you could give me just one piece of advice to become as rich as you are what would it be?’. His answer was ‘Read, read read’. That is quite a statement, from quite an authoritative [...]

I’m not a fan of excuses. Matter of fact, I downright do not like excuses. When my daughter makes the statement: I can’t or I do not know, I have an answer for her. My answer: “As long as you have God and Google you can do and know anything.” Well, I think you get [...]

If your heart’s in the right place and you do what you can to make your relationships work, why do you keep getting hurt? When you want so much to succeed, why are you often disappointed and why do your efforts often go nowhere? These and other such questions, and the issues that lie behind [...]

Whatever media you create in, however passionate you are about creating, and however much you create, there are times when all of us feel a little jaded, and, dare we say it, bored.
Being creative – and being able to explore that creativity – is a privilege. With it also comes expectation and sometimes feelings like [...]