According to what I’ve been told, the Good Book (Yeah, you know the one I’m talking about… not Harry Potter!) says that “If you but have the faith of a mustard seed,…
Category: Personal Growth
Day 210: Preventing the Highest Betrayal
“Betrayal of yourself in order not to betray another is Betrayal nonetheless. It is the Highest Betrayal.” –Conversations with God, book 2, p97 It’s funny how simple this happiness stuff turns out…
Day 209: Is dwelling in the past serving a purpose?
Yesterday I wrote about how personal happiness can be an ongoing negotiation, requiring you to problem-solve and troubleshoot various situations that will come up in order to stay current with your own…
Day 208: The Curriculum for Your Personal Happiness
A couple weeks ago I wrote how the journey to happiness is not a one-time event, how it can be a complicated, winding road of twists and turns and sometime failures that…
Day 207: Appreciate, don’t complain
There are so many things that are wonderful going on in your life. All you have to do is look. Often, people are taught that looking at the problems in their lives…
Day 204: I’d rather look for what’s right [with the world]
I spent a lot of my childhood feeling indignant, even upset and angry, about things I didn’t like “going on in the world.” I was told about “big problems” of the world,…
Day 201: Adopt a Friendly Attitude Towards What Matters
My recent efforts at introspection have yielded many valuable insights that are shifting how I experience each day of my life. For one thing, I am catching a lot of the old…
Day 199: Accept No Substitutes!
For all the noise in this world about who people should be, what they should be doing, what they shouldn’t be doing, and for all the different voices aiming to influence, cajole,…
Day 198: Our Challenging, Incredible Minds
Our minds are awesome things that give us powers that are completely unknown to the other life forms on this planet. At the same time, our minds pose considerable challenges for us,…
Day 197: What if you could live guilt-free?
What if you could live guilt-free? How would you live if you could be free to be, have, and do what you want without making yourself wrong? For a few months now…