It often can be a bit of a surprise to realize you could use a hand around the house. It might be difficult to take a shower, cook a meal, change your laundry or maybe [...]

I must admit that I am going through a rough patch right now. My life is complicated and my work is my solace. When someone dares to threaten my solace; it rocks me heart and [...]

Is there anyone, outside of your best friends and most loved family members that you would blindly trust with your vitality, your quality of life? How about your finances, the choice of where to live, [...]

About six months ago, I stood up behind my desk and turned to walk to the copy machine. In the flash of an eye, I found myself sitting on the floor with a throbbing ankle [...]

Last month I brought up the profound changes our society has experienced in the last decade. There are many ways of adapting to these changes. Most of us have experienced monetary damage. The vast majority [...]

The “current economic climate”, as CNN puts it, has begun to change the average person’s perspective and priorities. After three decades of wealth building, we have been forced to back up and consider different lifestyles. [...]

“Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted”
Aldus Huxley
It is human nature to take for granted that the average citizen or salesman is a relatively honest human being. Unfortunately, [...]

Is there anyone, outside of your best friends and most loved family members that you would blindly trust with your vitality, your quality of life? How about your finances, the choice of where to [...]

Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)
Have an [...]

Isn’t it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for – I don’t know what exactly, but it’s something that you don’t mind so much not having at other times?  ~Kate L. [...]

There is no use worrying about things over which you have no control, and if you have control, you can do something about them instead of worrying
Stanley C. Allyn:
Last month we began to talk about [...]

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.”
~Leo F. Bustaglia
You worry. I worry. We all worry about all kinds of things. But why do we allow ourselves to worry [...]

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
William James
US Pragmatist philosopher & psychologist (1842 – 1910)
As I watched another American Town [...]

Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors. –Louisa May Alcott
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
The [...]