As we end the year, and Thanksgiving approaches this is a good time for taking stock. Who has made a difference in your life? Have you been able to make a difference in someone else's life? And who are you to be making a difference in anyone's life?

Thanksgiving is...

As a divine being, a Soul, you bring spiritual light and love into this world.
You create a space for grace to be in your life.
Dr John-Roger

Can we create the conditions in which we lead grace-full lives? And if so how? Is it even possible to...

Last week, my 91 year (and ten months) old neighbour, Trixie, asked if I would stand in for her to assist at the Marriage Course given at our local church. Her day was already fully committed and she just could not manage another thing. Trixie, a figure so slight a...

How far that little candle throws its beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
William Shakespeare

On my recent trip to London, I went to one of the most innovative book launches I have ever attended. It featured a clotted cream tea. Clotted cream is...

"You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart."
George Michael

There seems to be a pandemic of insomnia, which is not surprising given the stresses of this time. The good news about this bad news is that time and creativity has been invested in finding...

A few years ago, I gave seminars on the theme: Better business through personal success. These illustrated enlightened self-interest; how personal, inner motivation serves both business objectives and employee satisfaction. This view was based on my experience conducting Inner Motivation, Personal Success and Career Development training programmes for a number...

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together. All things connect.
- Chief Seattle

We have more means than ever before for connecting...

Next week I go to England, partly for my birthday and partly to see the independent movie, Spiritual Warriors which is presently touring the world. It shows in London on Friday 2nd October. It is one of those movies that gives you something different each time you watch...

Life is a brief candle for me. It is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got hold of for the moment,
and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future generations.
George Bernard...

Have you ever been around a child who, with single-mindedness of purpose, has got just what they wanted - like a puppy, a new pair of shoes, a treat of some kind? Perhaps you have achieved the results of clear, unfettered focus, going for something you really wanted, that was...

This is my 40th consecutive week of posting articles on HuffPost. The process has been a great gift and a blessing to me. Writing each post has given me food for thought, a chance to look more deeply at how we can create greater health, wealth and happiness.

The HuffPo...

There is a lot of bad news around. No news in that. Does it get to you? I limit the amount of news I read, hear or watch because it gets me down. Being grateful for what is immediately around me alleviates unnecessary stress, and restores my spirit.

1. Control...

"...keep knocking, and the Joy inside will eventually open a window
and look out to see who's there."
- Rumi

On Monday, I struck the bottom of my creative barrel. It was a hot day. I had no inspiration, enthusiasm or appetite for any of the...

"Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot.
In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you."
Oscar Wilde

Education may have taught you to get the right qualifications, a good job and then you would enjoy the benefits of a comfortable...

This morning, I woke with a stiff neck. I was not aware of it until I turned by head to brush my hair and then - ouch! A stiff neck tells me I am being inflexible. And I was. I had been planning my day to go a certain way...

"Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate;
to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday;
to feel a sense of self."
Erich Fromm

Pursuing your passion can draw the best of your creativity from you. Being creative lends greater meaning to your...

"A strong passion for any object will ensure success,
for the desire of the end will point out the means"
William Hazlitt

Are you living the life of your dreams, or are you feeling constrained? Do you ever feel disheartened, cast down by...

Duke Orsino:
If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
Twelfth Night Act 1, scene 1, 1-3
William Shakespeare

My recent post on the volunteers at Valley...

The era when we worked 48 hours a week, 48 weeks a year and 48 years for the same corporation are long past. Job security used to be found in being loyal to one boss or business - for a lifetime. As we have seen, this is now no longer...

"Be your own awakener to the beauty and power that are alive in you right now."
John-Roger

At these times of unprecedented change and challenge, many are taking the opportunity to reevaluate their lives. Is the work you are doing truly serving you? Are your priorities where you want...