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When the Other One Gets Everything I am not the type of person who sits around complaining when things don`t go my way but sometimes the truth needs to be told. I`ve never been known as "spoiled," or have gotten everything my way. In fact, I am just the opposite. I guess I am what you call "cast away." You see, Ive had my share of rough times and always overcame them on my own. B ...Random, Rambling, Reflections "Random, Rambling, Reflections" We cannot become who we need to be, By remaining who we are. Invent yourself everyday. - UnknownFirst of all, let me state that this blog is not about Random Rambling Reflection. Just for today though, I'm going to allow myself the luxury of not knowing what this blog is about. If you're unfamiliar ...What Inspires Me Inspiration is a universal concept, yet particular to each of us. Simply put, what inspires you may not inspire me and the opposite is obviously true as well.What Inspires MeInspiration is often the kindling to the fire of life. Without inspiration, our lives often become nothing more than an unemotional swampland where we stagger ...Life's Music-Gratitude Someone said “Complaining about your hair turning grey? Be grateful that it isn’t turning loose!” Of course, if your hair has turned loose, you can be grateful that bald is in vogue or your head is suitable for wearing a variety of hat styles.I recognize that gratitude is something to remember daily for the simple things. I wake up in the ...Consulting Your Soul Recently I approached a traffic light where a man stood in shabby clothes with a three-legged dog by his side. As I waited for the light to change I looked at this scene with compassion and felt an urge to contribute something. The sign he was carrying indicated that he was homeless. The people in my car commented that he was a strong young man, ...Ctrl-Alt-Delete Your Life Ah, the good old "Vulcan nerve pinch", the three-fingered salute, the one-handed solution to many backhanded aggravations. How simple, how effective, how instantaneously gratifying to the mind behind the mouse. Wouldn't it be great if we could take the lessons learned from this simple three-point process into our lives and install them into our ...7 Strategies to Overcoming Anxiety and Panic Attacks You Can Overcome panic attacks and anxiety! That is great news to those who suffer day in and day out, year in and year out. I have and I know that you can too. THE SYMPTOMSFor me it started with heart palpitations. My thoughts immediately steered to fear. Then my throat would become dry so I could not s ...Back-Planning For Success Coming up with new dreams and passions can be fun, easy and inspiring - at least until you sit down and begin trying to sort out how to actually accomplish these wild goals. Suddenly, what seemed like such a clear and well-marked path takes on the aspect of an overgrown and thickly brambled wilderness of dangerous, unseen pitfalls and endlessly ...Why Read Inspirational Quotes? Maybe you've heard this one:"What does it profit a man to have gained the whole world, and to have lost his soul?" - Jesus ChristInspirational quotes and sayings from the present day or centuries past, can inspire and instruct us. This is true regardless of the religious or spiritual tradition they come from. Nor do religious or sp ...Teaching Parents to Choose Not to Drink Alcohol For The Sake of Their Kids Why would parents who may enjoy drinking alcohol, choose not to partake, for the sake of their kids?Intelligent parents, who want to save their children from the damaging effects of alcohol use, will choose not to drink alcohol themselves.Arguments to prove that point:1. Modeling or example is the best teacher.2. A do ...Part I - Trust that Bigger Things Are in Store for You--The Beach The majority of us have spent part of our lives not knowing what we want to do. We seem to drift aimlessly thinking that life is about paying the bills until we are presented with a set of circumstances that force us to sit up and take notice of why we are here. Some of those events are quite jolting while others represent a gentle reminder. ...The Write Way to Self-Discovery Many years ago I knew it was time to start a journal. I was so carefully locked up within myself, I didn’t know where to begin. “What will I write? Where do I start? What do I say? Who would care what I have to say? What if someone reads what I wrote?” To write would risk exposure. It was a difficult process to write anything of significa ...Who is My Mother? Text: Matthew 12:46-50, Mark 3: 31-35, Luke 8:19Mother's Day has passed. All the dinners have been served, flowers and gifts delivered. The question remains- Who is My Mother?In the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke Jesus asks and answers this question.Isn't my mother the one who gave birth to me? Isn't she the one who took ...Chinese Gooseberries and Oprah? Oprah and Harpo Productions, have consistently reaped awe-inspiring progress, and record-breaking profits for more than two decades now. While Oprah consistently soars with stellar growth, the rest of the industry seems to stumble, tumble, fumble ... or even disappear.Just what is it about Oprah that has her consistently reaping hilacious ...Generosity We'd been walking all day and it was raining. All the road signs were in Serbian. It was evening - and we were lost, cold, hungry and soaked.The war was still a few years away, but there was little to be cheerful about. Then out of the gloom an old man stepped into the road and, raising his eyebrows inquisitively, asked "hotel?".Lo ...The Astounding Power of Faith "Faith is the confident assurance that what we hope for is going to happen. It is the evidence of things we cannot yet see." Heb. 11:1 (NLT)Faith is a powerful force that the whole of humanity is yet to embrace. Most people have read the quoted verse several times yet it has not been imbibed into their lives. So many people can aff ...Inspirational Thought For The Day Are you ready for your inspirational thought for the day? When you first read it, it may seem too simple. However, if you think about it for even a moment, you'll see that the implications are profound - and inspiring. This is t:"Whatever goals you have in your life, and no matter where you are start, someone has succeeded at something si ...Embracing Inspirational Awareness: Five Perspective-Changing Benefits Live Aware! Sounds simple enough. And yet, for many of us, living with true awareness takes practice and commitment. It requires that we nurture our sense of wonder, curiosity and genuine interest each day. It requires that we refresh our connections to the people and essential elements of the world around us. Only then can the “Aha” truth of aw ...Designing Inspiring Environments The influence of your personal environments on your health, creativity, and well-being is often subtle, yet profound. You can use the environments you live in to support you in feeling good about yourself, to experience less stress, and to be more productive.Personal environments can include your relationships with family, friends, and co ...Right and Easy Are Rarely The Same Thing - Part 5 of 5, Paper or Plastic? For a moment in time, there was one question that was all the rage across the land, “Would you like paper or plastic?” Although preceded by Smokey the Bear and the weeping Native American, this question was even more entrenched in the cultural consciousness. Surely, there have always been environmentalist. (This would be an appropriate time f ...Alone--But Not Lonely You might have felt lonely at some time or another in your life—not in the literal sense—in a spiritual sense.Have you felt that somehow you were nameless and faceless to others? We can feel spiritually alone when being passed over for a promotion, or a raise or rejected by a loved one. You might have felt it when a close friend or partn ...Four Houses NOT For Sale My friend Luther Miller is a perceptive observer of contemporary society, so when he says there are four houses in America NOT for sale I am sure he has something more on his mind than real estate.Sure enough! Luther looks around him, likes what he sees hut notices a growing apathy toward human liberty.As he sees it, there are fou ...Change Your Landscape by Seeing with New Eyes A Story (Source Unknown) – One day a very wealthy father took his son on a trip to the country for the sole purpose of showing his son how it was to be poor. They spent a few days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family. Upon return from their trip, the father asked his son how he liked the trip. “It was great, Da ...See The Sunrise Did you see the sunrise this morning? When was the last time you actually watched a sunrise? Did you pay attention to the gradual unfolding of the new day as the symphony of color and light burst upon you with exciting brilliance and energy not only bringing light and warmth, but the peace and hope that always accompanies the dawning of a new ...Don't Ask Your Doctor Perhaps I should ask my doctor if there is a drug to take to combat frustration from seeing so many drug ads. You know the ones I'm talking about. They always start out with a list of questions. Then they tell you that a new drug might be just the thing for you--all you have to do is ask your doctor.Here's my tongue-in-cheek riff on tho ...Life's Little Pleasures Life is all about gratitude for the little things, the things we often take for granted. Oh yes, there are big achievements, big plans, big toys, big stuff, big problems and big failures. But, these pass leaving broken or challenged spirits or hearts in their wake. It’s the little things that really count.Life accumulates moment by mo ...It's Not Always About the Benjamin's, Baby Often when I receive emails from this list with folks, Telling me that they have discovered their life’s purpose but they don’t have the money to do what they need to start living their purpose.Please, please, please do not let your lack of money stand in the way of you living the life that God has planned for you to live.There is ...No God! "The fool says in his heart, `There is no God'" (Psalm 14:1).Just think if we had no God! Divine Providence would not exist at all.No God! Then all God said is fiction and we would have no foundation. We would have no hope, no belief, and no expectations. What a terrible world this would be without a God who keeps the heavens ...Ten Tips to Build a Culture of Inspirational Leadership Leadership, leadership development and leadership training are “Hot” issues in today’s business world. A recent Internet search uncovered over 44 million hits on leadership, over 20 million hits on leadership development and 15.7 million on leadership training. Visiting an Internet bookstore revealed similar interest with almost 18,000 titles ...Leadership Lessons from Pope John Paul II "Heroes are rebels with a cause. Rebels because they challenge the traditional ways of thinking and refuse to follow the herd. They have a cause, a vision, that's larger than life." - Sharif Khan, author of Psychology of the Hero SoulFrom a small-town Polish boy born to a retired army officer to become Pope; from a hard life in Nazi occup ...
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