Sometimes it’s difficult to stay positive. You try to think positively, but it just doesn’t work. After all, how can you think positive thoughts when: A hurricane, earthquake, or tornado hits and destroys your house…or some region of the country. You lose your job. You’re told you have cancer. Your husband leaves you. Your kids […]
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Muhammad Ali was a great boxer, but I think of him as a man who lived an inspiring high-performance life. His fight record, the difference he made in the world, and the motivational words he left behind serve as a reminder of this. Maybe I see Ali this way because I’m not a boxing fan
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Don’t believe everything you hear, unless, that is, you want to make what you hear a reality in your life. I remembered this principle yesterday as I lay sprawled across the road. “Self-fulfilling prophesy,” I grumbled as I thought of the young man in the bike store who had taught me how to use the
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Do you need to shift your mind…to alter what happens inside your head….so your behavior changes? What do you need to change so you can fulfill your potential? Discover exactly what you want and become determined to get it. “Sell yourself” on your ability to succeed at whatever you set your mind to doing—don’t rely
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During Yom Kippur, Jewish congregations atone for a litany of communal sins. They range from common ones to ones you rarely hear or think about. One sin, however, always sticks in my mind, because it a misdeed I typically don’t think of as a sin: negative thinking. Don’t get me wrong. I believe strongly that
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While I was in New York this past weekend, a friend made a comment that really bothered me. She said she’d always assumed that things would go her way, for example, that she’d get into the college she wanted, land the internship she desired or end up with the job she sought. And she always
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Is there something about yourself that you consider a “negative,” something you think of as a detriment to your career or resume? Maybe you didn’t graduate from college or you’ve changed jobs often or English isn’t your first language. Today, figure out how to turn that so-called negative into a positive. Make it an attribute.
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Everyone’s talking about U2 front man Bono, who was saved from possible paralysis by emergency back surgery this past Friday. His rehab program requires an eight week recuperation necessitating postponing the North American leg of the band’s U2 360 Tour and canceling next month’s Glastonbury, England, appearance. What happens to you when you have a
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Yesterday I wrote a post about everything being for the good. Interestingly, today when I opened my daily message from Neale Donald Walsch he had written something very similar. He said God wanted me to know: …that it sometimes looks like “one thing after the other,” but really, it is Blessing After Blessing. I know,
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Lots of human potential and personal growth experts will tell you that everything happens for a reason. I often say the same thing. This means there must be some good in every event. This teaching can also be found in Judaism. In fact, we have a famous saying that comes from one of our Talmudic
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Lots of experts–including me!–will tell you to think positively and to speak positively to yourself. These are not new ideas. The fact that our thoughts are creative has been around for a long time, as the author of The Secret wanted us to realize, however, it has been no secret. As the Law of Attraction
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I’ve been thinking today about the benefits of speaking no evil. You see, I was writing a post for my Examiner column on the topic, and, as often happens, that got me thinking in much more general terms. Let me back track a bit. How often do we each speak badly of others–which basically constitutes
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