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Christmas - Recapture Quality Family Time with Inspirational Christmas Stories! Everyone knows that life today is more hectic than ever before. Families are often very busy and family fun time is at a premium. This is never more apparent than at Christmas. Everyone wants Christmas to be magical and special, but many of us feel that it has become commercial and impersonal. The solution, though, is so simple that many familie ...Getting To The Root Of Unhappiness Many people live in clutter, emotionally eat themselves into overweight, live in debt, hate their jobs and otherwise live unhappy lives, unable and seemingly unwilling to change. Why? What do these have in common? What is the core issue?Fear, or rather an absence of love.Fear, and not hate, is the "dark side" or opposite/absence of ...Tracking Success With A Goal Tracking Chart Creating a goal tracking chart is as simple as drawing a basic grid or table. Create as many vertical columns as you have goals to include, and include a horizontal row for every sub-goal or milestone you wish to divide your goals into, plus one row on top for your "Finish By" date and one row below for your goal heading or title. [Hint: Creatin ...Perspectives Versus Perceptions The concept that, “Perception is the reception and deception of your conception,” may be a well-known concept, but how well-understood is another matter. This concept means that when you have a perception about your Self, someone else or some situation, you can deceive your Self because you sometimes lack the clarity to hear and understand all ...Euphemisms for Saying "I Don't Know" There are times when the perfect answer is, “I don’t know.” At those times, say precisely that, with confidence or authority.People ask questions for all different reasons. Sometimes it’s helpful to know the statement behind the question; other times, it would be insensitive to ask why someone is asking. The key is to find ways to respond ...Reach Your Potential Many of us are unaware of what our possibilities are. We often sell ourselves short believing we haven't much to offer. We think. "if we were smarter or prettier or more handsome, life would be so much better." We look up to others and wish we could be like them. We don't understand God's plan. He made each of us just the way He intended. He ga ...What Is Our Weight? ". . .Let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us" (Hebrews 12:1b).A runner knows that he cannot run with weights that would pull him down or back. So it is in our spiritual race, too. Not everything that hinders is a sin, either. Benjamin Frank ...Have You Tried and Tried, But Failed to Create a Life of Happiness and Meaning Do you feel like a failure because you can't achieve the success other people seem to with personal growth and self-improvement work? Are you sick of trying things that just don't bring the results you want?If that's you, boy, can I ever relate! That was me too.The challenges that life sends our way can really knock the wind out of ...Pour It On, Go For It, Reach For The Stars, What Do You Have To Lose? Many people live lives of “Quiet Desperation” according to Ralph W. Emerson. Why is this? Part of the reason is that too many people have too little going on in their life to give them a real sense of satisfaction about their challenges, accomplishments and activities. They settle for a life filled with routine, sameness and boredom. No wond ...Trying To Heal a Broken Heart?...Focus On Yourself "We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same." -Carlos CastanedaThere are many times when ending a relationship that our self-esteem suffers. Self doubt and insecurities may surface.Because you are in, shall we say; a fragile state right now, it's important to continue to make good choices for yours ...How to Happily Endure to the End - From the Scriptures Math 3:2 Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.3:3 Prepare yet the way of the Lord4:4 Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every work that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.4:10 Get thee hense Satan: for it is written thou shalt worship the Lord they God, and him only shalt thou serve.5:3 Bless ...Journaling—A Powerful Tool Meditation can be done in many forms, however, journaling offers unique benefits. Meditation teaches us to empty our mind of concerns and bring positive ideas from our unconscious mind into the conscious mind. Journaling helps us anchor that experience in the conscious mind.Many people feel uncomfortable meditating in seated silence, jo ...Thank You, Mom, For The Good Manners! A good friend was complaining about her son the other day.“Did you notice,” she started, “how he didn’t wait for me to get my salad before he dove into his?”True enough, the teenager attacked his plate faster than a feral cat. If he knew how to growl, he would have done it.Without manners, we’re no more than animals... ...Shift Your Focus And Change Your Life Now be honest. Do you know any people who do not have constant problems in their lives? Our life is so set up to give us guaranteed continual annoyances. We get annoyed when our car refuses to start in the morning; frustrated when we’re stuck of a traffic jam; we lose our temper at the waiter who serves us the wrong dish; we hate our nosy neighb ...Politics as Usual INSPIRATIONAL COMMENTS:“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” -- Paine, Common Sense, 1776."... our mode of teaching the principles of our profession [Masonry] is derived from the Druids ... and our chief emblems originally came from Egypt ..." [William Hutchinson, Mason, The Spirit of Masonry, revised by George O ...Dread Disease Dragged Out My Best In denial, I was slow to accept Multiple Sclerosis. Who, after all, would embrace a diagnosis of the dread disease of no known cause, and for which there was no cure?“The mission of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society® is to end the devastating effects of MS. Approximately 400,000 Americans acknowledge having MS, and every week about ...Why Anyone Can Be Prosperous In nature, when the season is right, all things flourish and overflow with abundance.Similarly, any person can also benefit from the abundance of the creative force in life, the quantum soup from which all life arises. If there is an absence of this abundance, then something has gone awry, the connection between you and the source of life ...Eradicating The Heart of Poverty Poverty can sometimes only be a state of mind, based on our perception and what we value in life. It is also a disheartening reality for many. The Webster dictionary describes poverty as having a chronic need for money and material goods. How many of us in America one of the richest countries in the world, have this chronic need to have and desi ...10 Sad Love Quotes For Your Crying Heart Is your heart crying out in sadness? Yes, sometimes love hurts. Sad love quotes will help you to express your anguish and your huge heartache, during those times when love hurts.You may be facing difficulties in your relationship. You just had a big fight with your guy or girl, and you're at a loss of what to do. You just broke up with yo ...Home Gyms Vs Commercial Gyms When channel flicking, there are two different kinds of workout ads that grace your television on a daily basis. Commercial gym ads, including Bally and Gold’s, promote the purchase of health club memberships to achieve “satisfying” workout results.But, if you listen to Christie Brinkley, Chuck Norris and millions of other people around t ...An Inspirational Poem for Mother's Day If you are looking for an inspirational poem that shows an understanding of what a mom has to deal with, this is the one. Every mom, young or old, knows this by heart and can only hope that her children will understand when they grow up."You don't love me!" How many times have your kids laid that one on you? And how many times ...Top Ten Ways to Retire Retirement 1. Retire the word "retirement" from your vocabulary. Look it up: it means to "withdraw" or "retreat." Words can shape reality, and it's time for this one to go. Doesn't "renaissance" or "graduation" better describe your post-career life?2. Realize that retirement is a relatively new concept in human evolution. A few generations ago, ...How To Be An Inspiration To Everybody! You’ve probably come across the famous line from Emerson saying that our fondest wish is someone who will make us do what we can do.Perhaps, but most of us experience a hangover of negativity when we feel we’re being MADE to do anything. Compulsion and freedom don’t make friendly companions.Still, we need to get things done, to get ...The Last Martian Goes Home The Martian stood in the open field surrounded by the best government artillery pointed at his head and chest and back.The infantry troops formed a circle around him.Up above, fighter jets waited for the word to launch a missile right into the corn field if necessary.Unaware of the hostile force that had greeted him, innocen ...Getting Started on Your Diet: Finding Motivation to Lose Weight Two extremely irritating quotes that screech across the chalkboard of my conscience have been the most motivating weight loss words in my life.“Eat to live, not live to eat!”I don’t know who said it, but I first saw this phrase on a refrigerator magnet, featuring a hefty-looking pig. It was given to the person who lost the least am ...What Motivates You Are you waiting for the right time to be motivated?Everyone is motivated, even people who fail are motivated. People who succeed are motivated by positive things while failures are motivated by negative ones.As I look back over both my failures as well as my successes of the past I am amazed at how little difference there was betw ...85 Year Old Man Learns How To Read Did you ever want to achieve something so bad but were afraid to try? Did you want to learn something new but did not have the time? Did you ever after years and years of thinking about this finally achieve it? If the answer is yes to any of these questions, read on.Did you ever hear the expression you are never to old to learn something ...Cycle Of Destruction And How To Break It Many of us get caught up in the tragedy of our lives. We get full of anger, hatred, resentment, pity and all of the other negative emotions because of what people or life has done to us. We then often seek for ways to comfort our pain, alcohol, drugs, food, pornography, gambling, sex, etc. We find we’re in a cycle of destruction.It’s as ...Don't Wait For Your Wake-up Call What has been your wake-up call? Why do improvements no longer help you? And what should you do to change?Business activities are always subject to improvements. There is always something that could be done better. This is a process that can easily be managed. You can plan them as if they where day to day activities. It is a linear proces ...Change Those of you, who can fathom yourselves welcoming and enjoying a big, major change in your life right now, raise your hands! When I say, change, it might be a good change and it might be a bad change. Either way, we all don’t know what that change is going to be like, what aspect of our lives is going to change and we might not even be happy wit ...
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