Principles for Peace

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.” ~ Napoleon Hill

Since the new year has arrived most of us are thinking about the changes that we want to make.  What’s really going to make you stick to your goals, your resolutions and succeed? Let’s face it - within a month most people have neglected their resolutions.  Will you be part of the majority or will you rise above?  If you want to rise above, I have partnered up with someone to help you do just that….

Lance, of the Jungle of Life, and I have worked very hard to put together this opportunity  for each of you who are interested in success - whatever success is to you.  For a long time now, I have wanted to create a site that is purely dedicated to providing entrepreneurs with real information (solid principles) that will help them succeed while also providing a way for them to get recognized.  While this is different Read More »

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”

- Leo F. Buscaglia

It’s great to be back!  Thanks for your patience with me over the last month as I have not been around very much.  It has been busy, but it was good.  I hope all of you have had a wonderful holiday season so far and that the New Year is absolutely fantastic for you.  I wish you all that brings you peace and joy in the year to come.

Change -  it’s what we are all thinking about now as the new year arrives.  “What New Years’ resolutions will I make this year?  What do I want to be different?  How do I want to improve my life?”  may be some questions you are asking of yourself.  I would like to pose one way that we can all improve our lives over the next year.

I think it’s safe to say that we all enjoy a sincere Read More »

I wanted to take this time to wish all of my readers a very Merry Christmas.  I hope your holidays are filled with lots of peace, happiness and joy!  I hope you are surrounded by all those who are special to you.

photo by: krisdecurtis

It is my honor to have been asked by a good friend and loyal member of my community to produce a guest post for his blog.  Lance is an all around great guy with a lot of talent for writing among other things.  Please join me at Lance’s Jungle of Life for my guest post titled A Simple Holiday and Life Hack.

As I mentioned in my last post, I will be extremely busy over the next month and will be taking a substantial amount of time off away from the computer.  I’ll be checking email and coffee orders daily but, overall my visibility on the internet will be scarce.  I’ll be popping in and out, but rest assured that I will be back.

So for now, please join me at the Jungle of Life for A Simple Holiday and Life Hack.

Last week I found myself in the complaining mode.  I admit it.  I’m going to be EXTREMELY busy over the next  five weeks. I’m either having company or traveling (or both!) each weekend over these next five weeks.  And one week in there my whole week is likely to be wiped out with activities.  And you know the stress the holidays can bring anyway…  Well, finally the song, “God is so Good” came to my mind and instantly my perspective starting changing.  I realized how blessed I truly am!!  Just today I thought to myself, “I’ve been complaining about all this traveling and company.  You know I should just be thankful that I have family to go visit and to visit me.  Not everyone is so blessed.  And I have an opportunity to get out of the norm for a bit and to see things from a different perspective.  But, that’s not what this post is about……

photo by: hammer 51012

I’ve been excited about this post for quite some time now.  I knew what I wanted to do for my Thanksgiving (the next US holiday) post several weeks ago.  You see, I have been blogging for almost a year now (here in just a couple of weeks) and I have been so blessed by it.  I have made some INCREDIBLE friends and had some great opportunities as I have been blogging.  I have been thinking about how incredible you are and how incredibly blessed I am by you, my blogging friends, readers, and commenters.  Without you it would all be pointless.  I want to take this special time to say: Read More »

“Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.”

-Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Are you thinking more positive and accurate?  Hasn’t this been an amazing series!  I have learned so much from you my readers in this discussion.  You  have helped me to better train my mind in the areas of accurate and positive thinking.  Thank you!  Just a few more thinking errors to discuss.  Don’t forget that as we learn these errors it’s crucial to replace them with accurate thinking when you catch them.  Your attempts at first my be a little weak, but with practice you will become a pro at accurate thinking.

In reality, a positive attitude is one of the foundations for accurate thinking.  However, working to eliminate thinking errors and replacing them with accurate thinking certainly helps you to think positive.  They both go hand in hand.

If you feel something does that make it true? Read More »

“Oh that I had the wings of a dove I would fly away and be at rest.”  - Psalms 55:6

Last weekend I attended the funeral of my husband’s grandma.  It was a sad occasion, but also a happy occasion as we released her on into her heavenly home.  She was a beautiful Christian lady with a very positive attitude.  She was ALWAYS happy and encouraged  others to be as well.  She signed all cards that she sent everyone with “Be happy” at the end.  She knew that happiness was a Read More »

“All the days of the afflicted are evil.  But he who is of a merry heart has a continual feast.”        - Proverbs 15:15

I’m pitiful.

There’s just no hope.

Nobody loves me.

I’ll never amount to anything.

I’m just stuck in this pitiful ole’ life of mine.

Nothing will ever change.

Well, I guess that’s just the way things are going to be for me.

That’s the way the cookie crumbles.

That figures.  That’s just my Read More »