Enlightenment
Just Say NO To Life – Mediocrity is Your Friend?
Isn’t it interesting how we constantly try to make ourselves comfortable in life – choosing mediocrity and complacency over taking risks and facing challenges? Of course, we don’t consciously choose mediocrity most of the time – mediocrity is simply the … read more
Spring Cleaning Your Life – 10 Surefire Ways to Let Go of the Past
Yes, it’s that time of year when we are teased with warmth yet reminded of the remnants of winter. Being in Colorado, I enjoy living in a region where we fully experience the four seasons – although I do find… read more
Five Ways to Succeed With Your New Years Resolutions and Intentions
Happy New Year everyone! We recovered from our gluttonous feast on New Years Eve as we attempted to challenge EVERY artery with a true 3-course fondue fest of cheese, oil and chocolate. I have discovered this to be one of… read more
A Note About Gratitude
It doesn’t matter how scared you are, you can move through it. It doesn’t matter what anybody thinks, it doesn’t matter what anybody does. What matters is that you were living your most significant, powerful truth. What matter is that you are following your path.
Even more than that, in doing so, you get to relinquish responsibility for those things that happen outside of you that have a tendency to impact your life or that can even have a tendency to control you.
Powerfully making the that decision, to relinquish responsibility means that when you’re facing obstacles you can choose to access happiness no matter what comes at you from the outside world.
How we react to everything that happens around us determines the quality of our life.
Here’s the bottom line about having a good life. You have to do the work. You must be willing to do the work. Nobody’s going to give you a magic pill to swallow to dissolve all your worries. You see, we all know that. But yet, if someone is waiting for that lottery ticket that’s gonna solve everything, and erase the distraction of fear and worry, etc., well, it’s just not going to show up. There’s no way around it: We have to make choices, we have to make decisions that will begin to evolve our life, and move things forward.
True Happiness Regardless of Circumstance
There is a foundation to making this thread of decisions work in our lives – it is knowing the difference between the things that we can control and the things that we can’t. Even in the moment I was diagnosed with cancer, I could 100% control who I was choosing to be. I could decide how to react to the doctor’s words, “I don’t know if you’re going to live.”
"A direction in life is all some people need...a two-time cancer survivor’s plea to his readers to live their life to the fullest using the advice within. Stating the power of family, love, peace, changing one’s life for the better and being prepared for death, he has much to help readers fully embrace life. “Manual for Living” is a read that should be fully embraced by those who have lost their way." - Midwest Book Review
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Tip of the Day — Wednesday, May 15
"We must learn to accept that everything happens as it is meant to, thereby allowing us to move confidently in the direction of our dreams." - Chernoff - REALITY
