A failure is a result, not a person. To call someone, or call yourself, a failure is a judgment, not a reality. So, what you did failed. What you tried to achieve didn't make it. You came in 2nd, or 3rd, or 134th, didn't get that job, got injured and can't compete anymore, fell short of honor roll or gave up and dropped out, the business went ... Continue Reading »
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Real Riches Cannot Be Stolen
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. - Oscar Wilde Times are hard. Jobs lost, homes lost, relationships lost. Savings, security, plans for the future. The loss of these things may be out of your control. But the loss of faith, the loss of hope, only you can ... Continue Reading »
If We Were All Perfect, There’d Be No Word for “Love.”
If we were all perfect, there'd be no need for words like, "regret," "mercy," "pardon," "forgiveness," "compassion," "rehabilitation." But most of all, there'd be no need for "Love." It is because we are none of us perfect that Love is so important. Feeling love and giving love is easy when things are going great. Even when they are going just ... Continue Reading »
Emotions Are Contagious. What Are You Spreading?
There's an epidemic spreading called Emotional Contagion. Some folks call it the "Bandwagon Effect." We are each of us susceptible to infection. Scientific studies have long since proven that it's a natural instinct for all animals to pick up on and share in the emotional responses of their group. Humans are no exception. People can literally ... Continue Reading »
What If We Just Admitted, We’re All Scared.
What would the world be like if everyone just dropped the defenses, the pretense, the shouting, the attacks, the accusations, the paranoia, the profiling, the blame, the excuses, the assumptions, and every other tactic of emotional camouflage, and just admitted to ourselves that we're all scared? What if we all, every last one of us, could admit ... Continue Reading »
Aim at Heaven
Aim at Heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. - C.S. Lewis When you look for meaning in your life, aim at Heaven. You don't have to be religious to appreciate this philosophy if you think of Heaven as that ideal state of being that exists beyond earthly rewards. All things physical are nurtured by the ... Continue Reading »