In our busy lives, we tend to have a running commentary about time. We’re planning next week, next year. We glance at the clock and exclaim “Four o’clock already? Where did the day go!” And we also talk about “killing time” when we run up against an unexpected delay that leaves a hole in our […]
We all know what it’s like to walk into a crowded room, whether it’s an informal get-together or a work conference, and have the instant sensation that there’s a good “vibe” going on. Of course we have the contrary experience many times, too, when we detect an energy of anger, sadness or upset of any
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I’m sure you’re familiar with the saying “We become what we think about.” It’s nothing new. It’s wisdom that has been around for thousands of years. And yet we go along through life as if our thoughts don’t really count. I think the problem is that we don’t take it literally—we get the idea it
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I’ve written three books so far on the topic of happiness—actually, all my books, whether fiction or nonfiction, hold the intrinsic idea that we are meant to be happy beings, but we are the ones getting in the way. But how do we manage to do that? With all the self-help books, blogs like
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When we open up to understanding the laws of creation, and that we have the power to experience a more joyful life by deliberately focusing on what we want, many of us get stuck. We wonder, “But can I really have it all?” … “Aren’t I being greedy to ask for so much when so
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This article is for all the people who grew up learning to be self-effacing, and have continued the practice long into adulthood. That practice of deflecting compliments, of saying “Oh, I just got lucky” or “Don’t be silly, it was nothing,” or “Anyone could do it better than I managed to pull off.” We’re taught
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I’ve been a bookworm all my life. When I was a child, trips to the public library (or to the bookmobile in summer months) were a family event, and I was blessed with parents and older sisters who showed me by their example how to expand my imagination and intellect in the pages of books.
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For many thousands of years, our ingrained thinking pattern handed down from one generation to the next has been to repeat and believe: “I’ll believe it when I see it!” We learned to doubt our own abilities to manifest the life we want. We learned to be skeptical about anything that can’t be photographed, measured,
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If you’ve ever woken up and groaned softly to yourself, thinking not-so-kindly about the day ahead, then there’s something important missing in your life–and I think I know what it is… Passion for your own journey! If your thoughts revolve around the household, the job, the family’s needs…the chores to be done, the errands to
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I think most of us would check off the word “caring” if we were given a list of adjectives and told to mark the ones that describe our own personality. But what does it really mean to be a “caring” person? I know someone who can tell you a whole lot about this subject, because
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