Happiness is born within
We often think we’ll be happy when…happiness is not an external matter so why do we often look outside ourselves to find the source? Happiness resides within. It forever begins, and ends, with us.
We often think we’ll be happy when…happiness is not an external matter so why do we often look outside ourselves to find the source? Happiness resides within. It forever begins, and ends, with us.
In the February 2009 issue of Success magazine, publisher and editorial director, Darren Hardy, shares his top eight tips for fostering abundant thinking in children. I find his list fascinating on three accounts: one, Success is a business magazine ; two, a business magazine publisher, who is […]
Some of us are more ambitious than others. I’ll readily admit I have high hopes for my smart, charming daughter and my entertaining, athletic son. But more importantly, whose life is it, anyway? If my kids don’t do their homework, who suffers? Other than the possibility their lives might emulate the cast of the movie, Failure to Launch, it isn’t really our problem when your kids make bad decisions. Ultimately, they have to deal with the consequences. We only think we do.
Start a smile file. Any time you receive a lovely card, artwork from a friend or child, a postcard from relatives or whatever else makes you break into a wide grin, put it in an All Things Good file. Pull it out whenever you’re feeling […]
No matter how hard I try, winter is the one season I have a hard time embracing. I see animals struggle to stay cold (heck! anyone dependent on Russia’s non-flowing natural gas supply right now is struggling to do the same), the trees look like […]
The mere cadence of Svetlana Konnikova’s post reminds me of the power of slowing down. Having enjoyed almost two weeks off, I have returned to the pace of my heartbeat’s rhythm. It was wonderful to feel “allowed” to watch a movie with my children last night, even […]
Leigh Rubin likes to look at the world a little differently. Applying his creative mind and his artist’s hand, he has drawn thousands of Rubes cartoons in his twenty-some years as a full-time newspaper cartoonist. To laugh is to live well. To laugh a lot […]