Outside the trees were swaying, the clouds were racing across the sky and the top of the bird feeder was barely staying attached. It occurred to me that if I didn't know about the force called "wind" I might attempt to explain away all these occurrences as the result of a "mystery" something.

The things you learn are but vehicles serving to transport you toward further knowledge and awareness. You can therefore not necessarily cling to the things you learn, because they may become obsolete through changes in time and circumstances.

Outside the trees were swaying, the clouds were racing across the sky and the top of the bird feeder was barely staying attached. It occurred to me that if I didn't know about the force called "wind" I might attempt to explain away all these occurrences as the result of a "mystery" something.

Most of the time I stand on my feet or at least my head is pointing up. Once in a while, using a nifty piece of gym equipment, I stand on my shoulders, and my head is pointing down. Every time I do this I am amazed at how heavy I am, and how little time I can stand the feeling of gravity pulling at me. Yet, when I stand the "normal" way I don't feel gravity at all. I am used to the influence of gravity pulling me down.

As we drove to work one morning we were celebrating the fact that it was a beautiful sunny spring day. Suddenly it wasn't. Within seconds we were surrounded by fog. We could barely see 20 feet in front of us.

You may have been encouraged too to make lemonade from the lemons life throws at you. And you may have thought of it as a pretty encouraging statement as well. But have you ever wondered whether it's life that throws us those lemons or whether we're doing that to ourselves?

Ever been accused of being a selfish person for chasing your dreams and wanting to achieve them no matter what? Well, I have. And since I always thought of chasing dreams and reaching goals as expressions of determination and perseverance, this bold accusation set me to think. Here was someone telling me that my efforts to achieve my aims were built on egoism!

The things you learn are but vehicles serving to transport you toward further knowledge and awareness. You can therefore not necessarily cling to the things you learn, because they may become obsolete through changes in time and circumstances.

This is a compilation of the most essential messages from my recent articles, from patience as a virtue, to the perception of freedom as a target that is harder to achieve than many seem to think!

Are you judged and frozen by numbers? As Financial Coaches, Del and I work in a world that makes a point of seeing and judging everything through the lens of counting numbers. Numbers of people, numbers of dollars, numbers of appointments, numbers of sales, numbers of years, it's all about numbers. If our clients, or we, don't have the right numbers then "it" must not be working.

Do you sometimes feel that you're living a boring life? You just can't seem to find anything exciting.

You wake up in the morning, then do the same old rituals. You go to the office or to school. You meet the same people, do the same job, travel the same road, booooring. Next day, same story.

Until I understood humility knew it you know only what you have experienced I thought it connotated humiliation and embarrassment. However, I have been working with some Wayne Dyer material and I have now learned another definition of humility. I now know humility.