Are you slowly dying in your own self-made poisonous rut of upset and resentment and calling it life instead? Are you drinking the poison of continuous upset hoping the other person will change? I'm pretty sure all of us have blamed someone else for our own upset and then stewed...

How much upset have you experienced in your life so far? How much more upset would you like to endure going forward? Bizarre questions, perhaps, and yet if you are willing to dig into them a bit, you might be able to dig out from under all that hurt and...

"My seemingly-impossible good is happening now." Last week, I suggested that you print this out, tape it to your mirror and see what happens. Did you do it? If you did, what have you noticed? Major miracles already? Probably not; however, you may have begun to notice...

How can you discover opportunity or an unseen blessing when life presents you with what may seem like an unwelcome event? Last week, I shared some pretty intimate windows into my own experience of what happens when God closes a door and how I managed to make lemonade...

Ever heard or even repeated that hackneyed phrase, "Whenever God closes a door, he opens a window"? While I haven't always found that window when the door closed in the past, some part of me has clung to that belief over the years. In my recent experience, I have discovered...

Ever wonder why those New Year's resolutions don't ever seem to work out? While it probably makes sense to work out more regularly, stick to a better diet or work on that bad habit, you have probably selected the wrong focus. If you want things to be different this time...

Clearly, the world could use a bit more peace these days. How about you, personally? What are you doing to produce peace, yourself? Are you approaching your life in a state of peace, or are you agitating for peace?

The various Occupy movements remind me of my days in the...

Need a miracle in your life? Perhaps you just might be able to create one using your own ability to imagine and visualize. While the first place to start may well be with your own thinking, there's more work to do if you want that miracle to arrive. Not all...

"What are you seeing that is not yet visible?" Could you have access to information that would change the world, or at least your own life, if you were only willing to see what is not yet visible?

This subtle yet powerful question was put to me recently by

Do you ever find yourself misunderstood by people you are only trying to help? If so, it could be that they misunderstand your intentions more than the information. In fact, they may feel more criticized than cared for. Know anyone who relishes more criticism?

As a natural born critic myself,...

Is learning to create the life you want instead of the one you settle for just another bunch of psychobabble leading nowhere? For some reason, encouraging people to claim authority over their own life experience seems to set off the critics. Toss in references to Soul or Spirit...

Are you living the life you truly want or simply settling for what shows up? Knowing the difference between what you pursue in life and why you pursue it is a major key to success and fulfillment. As I suggested last week, in order to experience what you...

Did you know that you already have what you really want out of life? I mean what you really want out of life - not the next bright shiny object, job promotion, trophy relationship or other kind of external object of your desire. If you find yourself conflicted between what...

Do you ever find yourself wrestling with the paradoxical challenge of immediate versus delayed gratification? Have you ever sacrificed your present well-being in favor of some golden ring in the future only to wind up being disappointed? Have you ever succumbed to the temptation of satisfying your desires now, only...

Are you better at criticizing or caring? Could your attempts at criticism actually be a misguided attempt to communicate your caring? The two are uniquely intertwined, and, in my experience, you can't really criticize unless you actually care in the first place. However, very few people will receive criticism as...

Have you ever worked your butt off to get something and then wound up disappointed when it finally showed up? Most of us have experienced this kind of disappointment over and over again, and yet we keep falling for the same illusion -- that satisfaction and fulfillment are just around...

Ever wonder why is it that you keep cycling through the same issues over and over again? On the personal level, you may be repeating familiar relationship challenges, getting stuck in recurring emotional patterns, or even bumping into oh-so-familiar job issues. Nationally, the same tired issues recycle almost daily, whether...

Are you thinking or merely reacting as you go through life's challenges these days? I mean, really thinking, not just mindlessly or emotionally reacting to the stuff happening to you? If you find yourself judging, condemning, complaining or blaming then you can pretty much be assured that you're in reaction...

Do you ever find yourself complaining about some aspect of your life -- family, work, health, etc. -- some aspect that you claim to be important to you? If so, are you spending more time complaining about that area of life than you are actually doing something about it? My...

Last week we opened an odd can of worms asking if you would rather live in hope or die in despair. As with all of these articles, the point is to provoke your thinking about the choices you are making day-to-day, about how you are responding to whatever...