1/26/2006

• Life Purpose -Do You Know Yours?

  Sometime ago, I surveyed my readers to find out what most interested them, i.e. what they would like from me in terms of future products, articles etc.

  Many people wanted to know more about their Life Purpose. They wanted answers to questions like, “What am I here for?” “What did I come here to do?”… And so on.

1/19/2006

• A Wonderful Website To Visit

  Above is the link to the new web site for my friend Florence’s Journey’s End Animal Sanctuary. This is a sanctuary for special needs animals (disabled, abused, old) that began 30 years ago. Beautiful Florence is 78 years old and still going strong running the place… which, trust me, is truly a wonderful no-kill, no-cage sanctuary.

1/2/2006

• Happy New Year 2006

  I just want to wish you a wonderful New Year. May it bring you many good and positive things. May you have the strength and courage to overcome challenges and difficulties. May you have blessings and good fortune too.

12/27/2005

• The 2 Key Success Factors

  Recently, Donald Trump was on TV and described his two major keys to success. He said:

  (1) You have to do something you really love.

  (2) Be willing to overcome any obstacle - even go through a brick wall, if necessary - in order to achieve your dream.

  Now, while this may not sound like particularly new information to anyone who has read a lot of motivational material, let us try to look at it with new eyes. After all, it’s coming from one of the most financially successful men in the world today.

12/22/2005

• This Unfair World

  “Why is everything unfair and unjust in this world?…”

  It’s a question a lot of people have on their minds. Frankly, it’s a very big question too. Philosophers and mystics have pondered this for as long as humans have been on this earth. Hence, it’s impossible to give a definitive answer. However, here are my personal thoughts on the matter.

  We have to see this from two points of view simultaneously; two viewpoints which are ultimately paradoxical to each other. The first is our standard personality consciousness. From this point of view, many things in life do seem unfair. Not only do they seem unfair, they actually ARE unfair.

12/8/2005

• Some Thoughts On Life…

  Two weeks ago, my father was on a holiday cruise in the Mediterranean when he suffered a coronary, i.e. a heart attack. The ship happened to be docked at Tripoli, Libya, and he was rushed to the main hospital there.

  The doctors there declared that he would have to remain there for several days, and so the ship set sail without him. And there he was - a 73 year old man, stranded in Libya with a serious heart condition.

11/18/2005

• Making The Most Of The Moments

  Have you ever wanted to write a book, but could never find the time to get started? Or study a course, but never managed to sit down to do it?

  Our lives are frantic. There’s less time available to do an ever greater number of critical tasks. So how do we ever get around to do what we thirst to achieve in life?

  Well, one way is to make the most of the moments you DO have. By this, I mean those scraps of time that we esteem so little and throw away without a second thought. Rather than try to block out large amounts of time for your dream project, and never actually getting around to doing it, you can make use of the scraps that crop up here, there, and everywhere.

11/2/2005

• The Science Of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles

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10/21/2005

• If I Could Go Back In Time (1) …

  Although it’s true that you can’t change the past, and “there’s no use crying over spilled milk”, there is nevertheless much value in pondering your life with a view to seeing the mistakes you have made. In this way, you can avoid making similar mistakes in the future. You can also learn to accept responsibility for what you have in your life, and the fact that you yourself created it through the things you did, or left undone.

9/15/2005

• Right And Wrong Thinking

  It really is true. THINKING makes the difference between happiness and sadness, failure and success. Yet, most people are unaware of the power that lies between their own two ears. Certainly, they may give it mental assent. Maybe they’ve heard this kind of thing before, generally agree with it, and hence cannot very well deny it.

  Ah, but to put it into daily PRACTICE…

8/27/2005

• The Da Vinci Flaw

  Do you have a lot of different projects that you start but never finish? Instead, you just start yet another new one?

  Well, I do this all the time. So do many other people.

  Now typically, most people almost have a strange form of pride about this sort of thing. They may regard themselves as “creative”, or even a highly intelligent multi-tasker. After all, Leonardo da Vinci started a huge number of projects that he never finished!

  Well, this speaker had a different point of view. He said that….

8/19/2005

• Living With Your Negatives

  If you have been studying personal growth materials for any length of time, you have probably heard it said over and over again that the name of the game is positive thinking. In other words, you must work to reduce and ultimately eliminate negative thinking and emotions from your life.

  Well, yes. It’s a nice idea in theory, but the practical reality is something different altogether.

7/27/2005

• It Ain’t Done Until It’s Done!

  I’m not sure where I heard this, but it just came to mind today, as I was working on a long-winded project. The saying is brief and pithy, and it goes like this:

  “It ain’t done until it’s done!”

7/19/2005

• Beyond Good And Evil - The Center Of Perfect Peace

  Why do we consistently fail to do the good we know we should? All too often, why do we do the evil we hate instead? Is there really an external force that acts upon us and tempts us into evil as many religions seem to believe? Or does our own inner fragmentation lead us ever into frustration; willing one thing but doing another?

7/10/2005

• The London Bombing…

  Terrorist events are never pleasant news. But this one struck home to me for several reasons. First, I was born in London, and both worked and lived there for most of my life. Second, I have regularly used those very stations that were hit by the bombs just a few days ago.

  For instance, Liverpool Street station is one I used each weekday for four and a half years. And I have spent a lot of time sitting reading in tube trains at Aldgate station (a stopping point to change driver etc.) waiting for them to move on. And I used to change train every day at King’s Cross for another job.

7/7/2005

• Why Goals Are Vital To Your Success

  The art of goal-setting is correctly said to be the key to life-long success. At the same time, it is admitted that those who set goals often fail to follow through. Yes, they may be more likely to succeed than those who set no goals whatsoever. However, how can you learn to set goals and then follow through consistently to create the life you dream of?

  First, be in no doubt about the critical importance of having goals, and preferably creating them in writing. What is a goal exactly? Tony Robbins defined a goal as a dream with a deadline. In other words, you define your dreams, and then come up with a time estimate of how long it will take for you to get there.

6/30/2005

• Einstein & Vegetarians

  Here is what Albert Einstein had to say on the subject of Vegetarianism:

  “Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.” - “Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”

6/28/2005

• Chasing Birds & Beheading Hydra

  Chairman Mao once called upon the people to wage a war against the sparrows that were attacking the crops and generally setting back the Party’s cause in the countryside. Doubtless believing that the sparrows were motivated and inspired by Western Capitalist corruption, he declared that the entire Chinese nation should unite to deal the enemy a crippling blow.

  On a certain appointed day, every one of the billions of people across China took pots, pans and anything else that would make a racket and beat them loudly to scare all the birds and keep them in the air. Every time they tried to settle in a tree, the people would beat their kettles and pans all the more loudly. Eventually, many of the birds dropped from the sky from sheer exhaustion and died.

6/22/2005

• Mind Building

  MAN can build up his mind and make it what he wills. In fact, we are mind-building every hour of our lives, either consciously or unconsciously. The majority of us are doing the work unconsciously, but those who have seen a little below the surface of things have taken the matter in hand and have become conscious creators of their own mentality. They are no longer subject to the suggestions and influences of others but have become masters of themselves.

6/18/2005

• Putting Out Fires - Problems Are A Fact Of Life

  This week has been testament to me of the fact that if something can go wrong, it eventually will. Whilst I don’t think that people should be morbidly fearful or have a positive expectation of trouble, it nevertheless helps to accept it as par for the course in life, not be too surprised when it comes along, and develop the necessary resilience to deal with it.