Working with Mission and Purpose
I find it is very helpful if we have a ‘guiding light’ that will enable us to make the best choices around our time, our energy, our money and our love (our most valuable resources). When all these resources are operating in harmony, we can literally flow through life….as one client calls it: “It’s like having green-light days!”
STOP THE NOISE. START THE MUSIC.
STOP THE NOISE
These markets are awash in noise. Fear mongering, complaining and finger pointing dominate the talk shows, newscasts and conversation among people. The doom and gloom voice is mixing and mashing until it gets so knotted up in the daily dialogue, that it fills the head with noise.
RAIN
It is certain that in every life rain will come. The rain represents the situations, sensations, conditions, and events that we try to avoid: adversity, controversy, stress, pain, inconvenience, and delay. We do not intentionally seek out these tough challenges. We do not desire to face these difficulties. We do not want to weather these storms. When the rain does come, it is our human nature to allow these times to get the best of us, to overwhelm us, to cause us to sink.
The Gift of Giving
For many cultures, the end of the year is a time to give gifts. Have you ever wondered how to select gifts that have an ongoing positive impact? Positive psychology, the empirical study of what makes people thrive, gives important insights. Martin Seligman, one of the leaders in the field and the author of Authentic Happiness, suggests that there are three parts to a happy life, The Pleasant Life, The Engaged Life, and The Meaningful Life. Thus, we can give gifts that give pleasure, that absorb attention, or that help people live in service of something larger than themselves.
Do you believe in Angels
As she stood in front of her 5th grade class on the very first day of school, she told the children an untruth. Like most teachers, she looked at her students and said that she loved them all the same. However, that was impossible, because there in the front row, slumped in his seat, was a little boy named Teddy Stoddard.
A Mothers Love
A little boy came up to his mother in the kitchen one evening while she was fixing supper, and handed her a piece of paper that he had been writing on. After his Mom dried her hands on an apron, she read it, and this is what it said:
For cutting the grass: $5.00
For cleaning up my room this week: $1.00
For going to the store for you: $.50
Baby-sitting my kid brother while you went shopping: $.25
Taking out the garbage: $1.00
For getting a good report card: $5.00
For cleaning up and raking the yard: $2.00
Total owed: $14.75
Well, his mother looked at him standing there, and the boy could see the memories flashing through her mind. She picked up the pen, turned over the paper he’d written on, and this is what she wrote:
