Category: life lessons
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Leaving Autopilot and Becoming Present
I used to live everyday in autopilot. I was caught up in the same routine, thinking the same things, doing the same things. The insanity of the situation was I expected different results. I hated the life I was living. I couldn’t look at myself in the mirror. What is scary about autopilot is that…
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When Do I Know When it is Time to Leave?
“It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it; What matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.” -Paulo Coelho I wasn’t planning on writing today, but I kept seeing messages that I…
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3 Powerful Lessons I learned about the Law of Attraction
Along the road of self-discovery, I have stumbled across 3 jewels in understanding the law of attraction. I had to go through some very hard lessons to find them, but under all the muck and gruel, there they were; little diamonds. When I first learned about the Law of Attraction, I didn’t understand the POWER my the…
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5 Lessons in Personal Growth
On the journey of self discovery there are some key elements we learn on the way, but we don’t always read about them in books. We all have our own journey and our own landscape to develop. We have our own personal taste to account for. Not everyone’s garden looks the same. We each have…
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Which Path Do You Choose Today? Love or Fear
Two Wolves An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy. “It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil-he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The…
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Lessons in the Drama
“Argue with your limitations, and sure enough, they’re yours.” -Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah p. 75 Drama can be a great inspiration to grow. Life can be nice, calm, and move along, but where is the fun in that. When we start seeing drama as a teacher, we can appreciate…
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I’m Not Stupid After All: School Testing and Self-Worth
The divergent thinker has considered the problem from all angles and made connections between the question and each of the potential answers. He has now spent four times as long on the question as the person who is tuned to think convergently, and his likelihood of choosing the “right” answer is still no better than…
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Seeing the Miracles
Have you ever had a thought or idea and the very next second, hour, day, or week it re-emerges through another person’s mouth? Have you ever had someone tell you about a book, then hear it’s name multiple times? Have you read that book and knew that it was exactly what you needed to hear?…
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Why Did I Choose Him?
“The unloving person continues to blame bad luck or a series of external factors for their not having a loving relationship. Love can only be attracted by and returned by love.” -Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-create Your World Your Way p.204-205 One night, I was lying in my bed,…
From A Loving Place 