I love and recommend a little book by Shakti Gawain entitled, Creative Visualization. She is someone I read years ago as I started my journey of personal development. In particular, she teaches some powerful techniques for learning to use visualization for healing and health. Here is a passage about creating your own safe place or […]
Most people want to go to heaven, they just don’t want to die to get there. I chuckle every time I hear this phrase. We want the rewards that come from big goals but fear the price. This is true in so many areas of life. For example, I may want: to be lean and […]
What if you could be . . . exactly what you wanted to be? Exactly who you want to be? What if it were possible to shed every bad habit and self-limiting behavior and break free into the person you were born to be — the person you search anxiously as you look into your […]
Today we’ll finish up the self assessment quiz for self actualization. The goal right now is to determine which areas of your life you feel strongest in, and which need work. Remember, you can’t fail this test; this is just a snapshot of where you are. Today we’ll start with: CENTEREDNESS
Yesterday we talked about some of the aspects of your life, and how satisfied you were with them. Now I’d like to zero in on the individual aspects a little more with this quiz. It’s long, so I’ll give it to you in two parts, and then we’ll talk about the results and how this […]
The First Theory of Relativity, according to Chloe in the movie You Can Choose Your Friends, “states that time moves more slowly when you spend it with relatives . . . And the Second Theory of Relativity is that time spent with your family and time spent in the real world move at different speeds. […]
Whether you consider your marriage strong or weak, you can only benefit from strengthening it. Yesterday you did a self-assessment. Now let’s take a look at the triad that is your marriage – you, your partner, and the unique team that the two of you form together. Let’s begin with a little quiz. You can […]
In a small city in Ohio, police offers make a monthly visit to all members of the city council to deliver a package of information for the upcoming council meeting. One Tuesday morning, officers arrived at one council woman’s home to find the door ajar. The officers knocked and called but no one answered and […]
New Zealand writer, poet and educator Sylvia Constance Ashton-Warner once said, “You must be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to be true to yourself. Wise enough to be brave enough to be strong enough to shape yourself from what you actually are.”
