What Controls You?

Often I realize that I am pulled in one direction or another, pulled apart, stuck, bound, or in general feel frustrated for either lack of movement or too much back and forth. Sometimes life has a way of making you motion sick or sick from stagnation.
Dig deeper into the layers that tug or tie [...]

17 Ideas for a Better Way To Live

I have long been inspired by author Og Mandino. I read his book, The Greatest Salesman in the World when I was in tenth grade and it changed me.

I recently came across an old journal and a slip of paper fell out. It had these, Og Mandino’s 17 Rules to Live By from A Better Way To Live. They still apply today. I wanted to share them with you.

How To Start An Organic Garden

Grow your own delicious, healthful organic food. Tips on planning, composting, watering, weeding, harvesting, natural pest control and more.
Source: The Daily Green

Learn: How To Carve A Turkey

Whether you are carving up a roaster from the grocery store or Boston Market, to slicing the Thanksgiving turkey, here are a couple of tips on best ways to serve or plate up a bird.

Source: Cooking.com
Also see:
How To Carve A Thanksgiving Turkey
The New York Times enlisted a butcher to show you the [...]

Learn: How To Tolerate Uncertainty – Sort Of

Being able to tolerate anything is difficult because it requires us to go outside of our comfort zones and show patience and kindness to whatever it is that really irritates us.
When you add the fear or anxiety factor of handling uncertainty, it makes the whole idea of “tolerating uncertainty” almost too much to comprehend.
Here is [...]

Learn: How To Handle Stupid Criticism

There’s good criticism, and then there’s the bad.
Constructive criticism feels like help, sounds like help, and is kind and gentle. It usually comes from a place of great care and concern in either wanting to help you improve or save you from possible embarrassment, hurt, or pain.
Then, there’s that stupid kind. The kind [...]

I Am Vanilla

A few months ago I met a friend who, when seeing me for the first time after a period of absence, said “I saw something at Starbucks that reminded me of you.”
What? How Sweet!
Needless to say I was very curious. I knew Starbucks had all sorts of coffee mugs, gift merchandise, and neat [...]

 

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True Riches

“No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has. ”
—Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887) clergyman, social reformer, abolitionist

A Way To Any Woman’s Heart

What’s the mystery of finding true love? Better yet, what is the way to a woman’s heart?
Chocolate? Flowers? Compliments? Attention?
Some men (and women) think it’s a big huge puzzle that has to be spread out on the table and filled in over time. Some may think a way to someone’s heart is something they’ll never [...]

How to have an AHA Moment

Sharon Begley (Newsweek.com) wrote an amazing article on how the brain works when people have their little epiphanies….aha moments….revelations…whatever you want to call it. 
What I found most interesting from her “lab notes” is that the ones who solved problems quicker, with less strain, are the ones who relax mentally and don’t get all anxious.  I [...]