How do you play the game of life?

“If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.” ~ Chinese Proverb ~ When playing any game it is always good to know the rules. This is true to be able to play the game of life effectively. The rules are simple, [...]

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What’s in your mind’s eye?

“Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.”~ Cherie Carter-Scott ~ Have you heard the expression, “it’s all in your mind?” This usually indicates disbelief of something someone has said. [...]

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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 do you know?

“Knowledge is like climbing a mountain; the higher you reach, the more you can see and appreciate.”~Anonymous ~ When we finish going to school many consider themselves educated. However our education does not stop at that point. We continue to learn, but what we do with that learning is most important. After our formal schooling [...]

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What is the state of your health? (cont.)

“To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.”~ William Londen ~ Wednesday we talked about the health of our society. Here are some of the reasons. The environment is becoming more and more polluted. Our water is becoming more and more polluted. Our food has [...]

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What is the state of your health?

“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” ~World Health Organization, 1948 ~ We are a society in crisis. There are several but the one I want to talk about is health. Because of advances in science and medicine we have been continually [...]

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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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Do you believe in you?

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” ~Anatole France We all have bouts with not believing in ourselves. We feel unworthy or are filled with guilt from some action in our past that we are ashamed of. We dwell on our lack of education [...]

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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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