What is it about a good book? Joseph Addison wisely wrote, “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” Perhaps this is true. Let me share a story to illustrate my point. Just the other day, I called in to a movie rental store with a question about a movie that was [...]
When you are alone, what do you think about? When your mind just wanders on its own, where does it go? Do you control what you think about? Stated in a different way, “Are we really thinking about what we think about?” We don’t mean to double talk, so let’s try to clarify that question. [...]
I started reading a great book the other day called The Eight Pillars of Prosperity by James Allen and found a perfect quote about living the Golden Rule right in the preface of the book. It says: “It is popularly supposed that a greater prosperity for individuals or nations can only come through a political [...]
Do we ever have opportunities to be kind to others but it never even registers in our brain that we do? Like the train that is rolling by sounding its whistle, have we stopped noticing the people that could use our help, friendship, or love? Opportunities could be rolling by us every day and we are so used to them we may have stopped taking notice. $10.00 would not even come close to the blessings we are missing by not extending the helping hand or the smile or a nice word to those who need it.