Open The New Book Tomorrow
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day. –Edith Lovejoy Pierce
Can’t Stick To A Goal?
I mentioned the other day that setting goals is better than making resolutions. But sticking to a goal is difficult. Tony Robbins says you need to get leverage on yourself — you need to have a powerful reason to reach your goal. Sometimes you can get that by telling someone else about your goal. Other […]
On Creating Happiness
I was looking around for some articles on the web about happiness and found one written during the Great Depression. It was written by Paramhansa Yogananda, author of the classic Autobiography of a Yogi. Given our current economic problems there is some good advice in this article. It’ll only take a couple of minutes for […]
Give Your Best
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. –Steve Prefontaine
No News Is Good News
I’ll admit it — I’m a news junkie. I spend way too much time watching MSNBC, Fox News, and CNN. Plus I check a number of news sites on the Web. The problem with paying attention to the news is that most of the time it’s all bad news. The kind of stuff that makes […]
Don’t Make Resolutions
Wow! Where has 2008 gone? It’s hard for me to believe that we’re in the last few days of the year. This is the time of year when everyone starts talking about making New Year’s resolutions. I’m going to suggest that you don’t make any resolutions this year. Really, how many times have you kept […]
Your Dreams
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. –Henry David Thoreau
Stop Worrying
I’m saying this to myself as much as I am to you. I’m a chronic worrier. I got that trait from my mother, may she rest in peace. I used to say that if she didn’t have something to worry about she would worry that she didn’t have any worries. On an intellectual level I […]
Choose to be Happy
I’m reading Joe Vitale’s book The Attractor Factor for the second time. If you haven’t read this book, I highly recommend it. Just this morning I was reading and came across a concept that we should all try to follow every day — be happy now. That’s a pretty simple statement, but can be pretty […]
Door of Happiness
When one door of happiness closes another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. –Helen Keller
