Live your true life
There’s a terrific quote from Oscar Wilde: Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. What he’s talking about is what people do to themselves in order to fit…
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John Quincy Adams once said: “Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.” (For those of us who aren’t…
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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it. …
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I’ve written a lot about who is responsible for making changes in someone’s life because, as a coach, and just in general, I hear people talk about how things that happened to them in childhood have made them the way…
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Did you know that it is said that Thomas Edison failed at least 1,000 times before he successfully invented the light bulb. However, he didn’t see 1,000 failures. He used each unsuccessful attempt to apply what he learned to the…
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Everything in life requires some degree of risk taking, even getting out of bed. You could sprain an ankle when you put your foot down and trip over a rug or a slipper. Okay. That’s unlikely to happen, but you…
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This quote from St. Augustine can be applied two ways – a positive faith in something where there’s no proof of its existence but that we want to see manifest, and also a negative faith in something that also has…
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I’ve always loved this quote from Will Rogers: Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. Of course, you have to know where you are going in life, otherwise, how will…
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Let’s face it. Most people end up living the life that someone else – parents, schools, society – have set out for them. What about you? Is there any misalignment between the life you are living and the longing or…
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As part of their spiritual practice, many people petition God for whatever it is they are seeking, whether it be for healing, prosperity, or favour either for themselves or for others. These are their prayers and there’s certainly no underestimating…
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