Apr 30, 2025
There’s a tendency in the high-tech, fast-moving, AI-driven world in which we live to dismiss the wisdom of our forefathers (if I can use such an old-fashioned word) as being largely irrelevant to the age in which we live.
So many of the self-evident, foundational truths and practices handed down to us through the...
Apr 29, 2025
It’s all too easy to grow weary of doing the right thing. Swimming against the tide is hard work. You just want to give up, to curl up in a ball and hide from the world.
We all need rest, that’s for sure; time and space on our own away from the cut and thrust of day-to-day life – no emails, no messages, no phone...
Apr 28, 2025
So let me ask you … do you like standing out from the crowd, being noticed, or would you rather just blend into the background? It’s an interesting question, because often the answer depends on which way the wind’s blowing, how you’re feeling, what mood you’re in.
I was watching well known psychologist...
Apr 27, 2025
Imagine that you’re given an hourglass where each grain of sand represents one hour of the time you have left on this earth in this life. You reach out, turn it over, and the sand begins to fall from top to bottom. What are you thinking about right now as you focus on that image?
There are only so many grains of...
Apr 26, 2025
Things don’t need to be going all that badly in our lives for us to want to throw ourselves a pity party. “Poor old me.” Don’t get me wrong, I’m not making fun of the trials you’re facing. They’re all too real, I get that. But chronic self-pity is perhaps one of the most destructive forces known to...