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Day 329: The Keeper of My Happiness

Posted on July 3, 2023

Abraham teaches us the futility of looking to others to “shore up our vibration,” as they say, or in other words, to prop us up so we always feel good. When we…

Day 328: Today’s Appreciations

Posted on July 2, 2023

Things I am Appreciating

Day 327: 1000 Pieces. One Good Experience

Posted on July 1, 2023

So I just finished a 1000-piece puzzle. It sits atop a portable wooden table in our living room: “Country House,” a jigsaw of a brightly-lit painting sparkling with yellow and orange pastels….

Day 326: Chronos Says, “Vive La Difference!”

Posted on June 30, 2023

Personally, I can’t say enough about the virtues of being consistent, especially the “slow-and-steady” variety of consistency, which I blog about it so much. In another recent example of this, for the…

Day 325: Words for Zoning Out on Appreciation

Posted on June 29, 2023

These are words I like: Ease Joy Satisfaction Well-Being Appreciation Fun Happiness Allowing Receiving Love I find I can always continue writing these words. They are good focal points for positive energy….

Day 324: Fie, Dividends. Fie!

Posted on June 28, 2023

Last December I wrote about how much I appreciate us receiving dividends with our investments. Since then I have encountered an unsettling fact: apparently, dividends are not the “free money” I thought…

Day 323: Onto the “Too Hard” Pile!

Posted on June 27, 2023

Warren Buffett talks about having a “too hard” pile. If an investment doesn’t make sense to him, if it seems too hard, he won’t act on it. Similarly, Abraham says that if…

Day 322: Learning to Make Myself Right

Posted on June 26, 2023

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about resistance. By that, I mean resistant thought I have sometimes experienced, and still do to some degree on some subjects. Today I was listening to…

Day 321: Let’s Keep Playing Ball

Posted on June 25, 2023

In the brilliant 1989 film “The Field of Dreams,” Kevin Costner’s character Ray Kinsella builds a baseball field in the middle of a farm in Iowa. In the process, he perplexes his…

Day 320: Trust Your Instincts

Posted on June 24, 2023

You must trust your instincts. You must allow yourself to go for what you think.  There’s a great Abraham quote: “Every warning is bad advice. And every encouragement is good advice.” The…

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