Jul
18
2019
If happiness were a tool in a carpenter's toolbox, it would likely be a pair of needle-nose pliers. Many times these specialized pliers are the only tool needed for the mechanical fix. In life, our happiness pliers are often...
Jul
17
2019
In our world, a challenge becomes a need for meaningful exploration. It becomes incredibly important. The late Dr. Scott Peck, psychiatrist, also saw it as perhaps a difficulty. He wrote: "Life is difficult. this is a great truth...once we know this, then...
Jul
16
2019
Each morning in Africa, the lion and tiger wake up hungry. They spend their day hunting for a good meal. Likewise, the gazelle and antelope wake up each morning; but, contrary-wise, they spend their day living out their beauty,...
Jul
12
2019
An important Emotional Intelligence skill is mastering the ability to see what you don't see better than what you actually do see.
Generally, we foresee on the horizon more battles coming between countries. In reality, this is a perpetual war...
Jul
11
2019
How many times have you heard: 'Just do what makes you happy! Don't worry, just be happy!" We feel if it makes us happy, it must be right. Then the goal of life seems to be happiness. Our culture teaches us...
Jul
09
2019
The teenage gal (in Part 2) began this day-by-day Win Life plan, the process of "living a brand new me." There are FOUR FOUNDATION PILLARS to beat any addiction and all destructive behaviors, including anorexia and suicide thinking.
PILLAR ONE - ENVIRONMENT...
Jul
08
2019
As a child, when my mom asked me to sweep the kitchen floor, it was most convenient to sweep the crumbs under the rug so they would not be seen. Far too many people do the same with their...
Jul
04
2019
Over the past 49 years of leading NBC Basketball Camps, there have been many opportunities to help student-athletes defeat the dreaded disease of anorexia. This is an eating disorder, a psychological condition with an obsessive fear of gaining weight....
Jul
03
2019
"If you want to feel inferior, look at someone above you. If you want to feel superior, look at someone beneath you." - Walt King
Susie's dad was a wise man. He grew up in the Great Depression. He rode...
Jul
02
2019
If we approach life from an inner beauty stance, we see beauty all around us, in all things; whereas if we are living in squalor life isn't very pretty.
Many many years ago, Sports Illustrated ran a feature on star...
