LOVE

What is Love?  A great feeling? A deep Desire? Something that causes blindness???  I LOVE my car.. I LOVE my wife…I make LOVE…I LOVE pepperoni pizza?!?  We get a lot of mileage out of that four letter word.  NO wonder people are confused about real LOVE. The Greeks can help us out.  They...

Lessons About Loss & Grief

Some surprising lessons I have learned about grieving.  First we all need to grieve! Even if you have not had a loved one die we still need to grieve.  You see Grief is from a loss of someone or something that had meaning to us. When you add the loss of something important, it is easy to see that we...

Why do we WORRY?

First, thinking about something is not the same as worry. Planning and thinking about outcomes are good things in deciding a direction, but WORRY just causes harm.   Worrying is feeling uneasy or being overly concerned about a situation or problem. With excessive worrying, your mind and body go into...

Professional Coaches

Everybody is hiring Coaches. Sports teams have used coaches for years, individual athletes were next, and now Companies and individuals are hiring Professional Coaches to help them achieve their personal and business goals. It is amazing what a good coach can help you accomplish just by asking good...

Direction – Direction

Everyone needs some help in picking the direction for their lives. Some of the decisions are Life Changing, like should we have children. That is not something you just try, to see if you kike it. Some decisions are rather small but may have a big impact later. Should I borrow money to buy a car – not...

Larger Perspective

I find that we often get hung up on the little petty things of life and we allow them to create a lot of stress in our lives.  I recently got back from a Mission trip to Honduras and it helped put things into Perspective for me. The village of San Lorenzo just got electricity about a year ago. For the first...

Road Blocks

This is the season for Road construction so there are a lot of Orange barrels and barricades getting in the way.  Sometimes I feel that is true in the rest of my life as well. There are things in my life getting in the way of where I want to go in life. Most of these roadblocks in my life are between my...

War on Terror

The war on terror took a turn this week with the death of  Bin laden. Many people are talking about the success and others are talking about the possible retaliations. We live in very difficult and uncertain times. The only thing you have control of, is how you react to the news. We can’t control...

Finding your Purpose

Finding our Purpose or our direction in life is not always easy but there are a few tricks that can help. The Ps of Purpose. Past Experiences shape us and teach us and prepare us for our purpose. Passion is something inside us that drives us in a direction.  What is your Passion? Personality is another part...

Bored with Life?

“Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.” Dale Carnegie The answer to boredom is finding your purpose.  Something you BELIEVE in with all your...