Jan 062011
 

Feeling stressed? Angry? Disappointed?  Good!

It’s not good that events are causing you to feel this way, but it is good because these are part of what makes us human. Isn’t it good to feel human?

Click here for 1 minute Mp3 audio: Inner peace

Jan 062011
 

Many people who achieve great things set lofty goals for themselves.  The key phrase here is “for themselves.”

 As children, we depend on parents or other grown-ups to provide food, shelter and to supply nurturing care. As adults, we are on our own.

 That is the bad news. The good news is that we are entirely capable of providing our own food, our own shelter and care for ourselves — and our ambitions.

When setting goals, make them dependent only on “The Grand I” that lives within you, and not on the love, nurturing, or performance of somebody else. Do this, and you will control your own happiness!

Jan 062011
 

A businessman complained that his company’s team-building exercise was destined to fail because he could not trust the other people on his team. More likely, the team was destined to fail because he did not trust in himself.

Click here for 1 minute Mp3 audio: Trust

Jan 062011
 

Today’s society creates many demands on our time. Often, people rush from one responsibility to the next from the time they wake up in the morning to the time they close their eyes at night. They put in 15 to 20 hour-work days and then work on weekends to make up for lost time.

Click here for 1 minute Mp3 audio: Work to live