Category: karma
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No One Knows What The Future Holds
These difficult times provide meaningful growth opportunities. Experiences like these, in the end, can strengthen who we are and what we stand for. Understand when we become paralyzed by fear, it oozes into all aspects of our life.
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Stop Pursuing Praise
I’m repeatedly acknowledging the importance of being unique, being you, and not rendering ourselves a slave to outside approval. Why? Because it’s not something we control. Because our own standards should be so high that we already have plenty to worry about. Still, there’s considerably more to be said about this particular human desire for […]
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Be Gratuitous, Show Gratitude – Continue Smiling
Ask yourself, who are the people that make your life happier and more fulfilled? Let them know how much they mean to you. Make sure you get enough one on one and quality time with the key people and positive difference makers in your life.
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What if One Day You’re Rich and the Next Day Poor
Imagine, one day you’re king and the next day you’re not. Literally. That’s the story of Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, who was made King of Naples and Spain, only to be forced to flee in exile after the reversal of his family’s destiny. Napoleon was sent to an island prison, but Joseph had to […]
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Don’t Let Your Story Limit You
Often we exert so much time and energy worrying about the wrong things. Living in a state of reaction is a poor way to live. I have come to understand on the other side of our failures, mistakes, and obstacles are miracles. Residing too much in the past is a dark and dangerous place to […]
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Wisdom Wednesday – Empathy Versus Sympathy
Empathy means equality; empathy says, ‘I get it. We’re the same. Let’s share that problem and work through it’.
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Wisdom Wednesday – 3 Intellectual Feats Each Harder Than Physical Activity
Just three. They are, he said, in this order: Returning love for hate. Including the excluded. Admitting you are wrong.
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E Pluribus Unum – Out of Many, One
On a larger level, living well is as a kind of civic duty we should each own. All of us are from different regions. But share a common goal. If you step backward you can observe how we, ourselves, are
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Wisdom Wednesday – Reach The Summit
Mentally it should give you that empowered, grateful, selfless, bonus-round attitude best captured by Martin Luther King Jr., who said these words, just hours before he would suddenly and fatally meet an assassin’s bullet:
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It’s All About Karma
I’m not going to say, that cheating or lying or murdering should be avoided out of fear of future punishments at the hands of God.
I Went, I Returned, It Was Nothing Special 