What game are you playing?

“There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” ~ Nelson Mandela Life is a game and we are but players. We learn to play games soon after birth. The purpose of the games we play is to [...]

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What is the art of Zen?

“Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture… Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale~ Are you familiar with the book, “Zen and the Art of Archery?” [...]

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Ready to start again?

“You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.” — Mary Pickford That which we call failure is a part of everyone’s life. It is your attitude that determines if failure is a deal breaker or simply an [...]

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Have you had an attitude adjustment?

“The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.”~Charles Swindoll ~ Attitude, attitude, attitude, this is our most powerful tool in life. How we think and act is guided by our attitude. We attract what we give out. If we have a positive attitude we [...]

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What is your purpose?

“If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.” ~Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ~ Do you have a purpose or do you just live one day at a time? It has been shown that people with a purpose live longer and experience more joy and happiness. So, [...]

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Do you rejoice in life?

“A wise man is he who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.” ~ Epictetus ~ Why is it that so few of us are able to rejoice in life? Is it because we have become so used to a life of ease. I look [...]

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Are you stressed?

“Stress is the trash of modern life – we all generate it but if you don’t dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life.” ~Danzae Pace ~ Stress is the number one cause of illness. Stress causes tension in the body which interferes with the normal flow of our life force [...]

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Do you waste time?

“If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.” ~ Lin Yutang ~ It is said that there is a time for everything. However, we hear people all the time saying they don’t have time for this or that. It would seem that most people [...]

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How is your self image?

“Your behavior will be consistent with the image that you hold of yourself.  It becomes your unconscious guide.  Your desire to remain congruent with your identity is a powerful force that left unmanaged, will manipulate your life out of control!” ~ Rock Thomas How many of us see ourselves as we really are? We are [...]

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What is the Ultimate Healthy Lifestyle?

“A lifestyle can be defined as a more or less integrated set of practices which an individual embraces, not only because such practices fulfill utilitarian needs, but because they give material form to a particular narrative of self-identity.”~ Anthony Giddens ~ Today we will start taking a slightly different direction. To date my posts have [...]

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