Success has different standards of achievement for different people.For some success means being the best in the world while for others success can be just the fact that they survived one more day.Not everyone aspires to be the richest in the world,...
We are never without anything to offer. We are never just one more amongst the multitude.The little boy with five barley loaves and two small fishes never knew that he would have such spiritual and historical significance.We too...
If over time you learn, or are actively taught, not to expect anything from a sibling, an adult child, or from a person who claimed to be a friend, is there anything left in that relationship?When people behave in disappointing ways that let...
We are too inclined for various reasons to see Lent as a period of sacrifice, and further, sacrifice as being abstinence and fasting. Keeping away. Letting go for a while. Not consuming.Yet sacrifice...
Have you ever felt under loved? Have you sensed that he or she is doing everything, and you can’t complain, but something still lacks? We want to be loved, but find sometimes, that we are surrounded by people who do what they think they need to and don’t really understand, value,...
We live in a world subjected to corruption. Perfection, experienced momentarily, is the outcome of untiring efforts. Without conscious, constant effort to overcome corruption everything spoils, rots, or malfunctions. This...
Happy marriages are hard-work-in-progress relationships, but too often people see the lack of conflict, or the lack of friction, as a sign of happy marriages. Nothing could be further than the truth.Perhaps some marriages are genuinely unworkable, but...
All of us suffer. The difference is that we can suffer pointlessly, or we can suffer productively. Pointless suffering primarily comes from 1. A desire to control others and manipulate outcomes. 2. Valuing yesterday over tomorrow. 3. ...
Today is my Tenth Anniversary as an Independent Commercial Coach. It’s been a while since I wrote and sharing something today seemed like a good way to celebrate this day. For some of you this may not be a new learning but could serve as a reminder, or even a confirmation.Most of us find...