Being generous with your time is one way to give to others. Being generous with the ideas you hold for others is yet another way. Being generous to yourself and others, at the same time, creates some real magic.

Holding a positive expectation of success, for another, is a gift. Holding a positive

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I am frugal by nature. Not cheap, but frugal. I actually believe we all are, at our core.

I see my core essence as helping me no matter where I am in life. It’s there for me. It’s rooting for me. It’s helping me to find the best way forward for me.

In this way, my core essence accepts me as I am. ...

When you start on a spiritual journey, what you don’t realize is that most of the journey is about going back to prior versions of yourself and picking them up for the ride that is your life. It’s about seeing, and re-seeing, your past, to say, I accept who I was then. It is about bringing all your ...

When you delve into a practice of deciding what you believe, it’s important to develop a habit of being honest with yourself. Many of us adopt, and perpetuate, beliefs that we think we should. And in so doing, we edit ourselves out of the picture.

When you delve into a practice of deciding what y

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Those of us with the planner gene have an easy time with this, but some people might bristle when I talk about project planning. To me, project planning is a fun way to spend an hour of my free time. For you, you might prefer to outsource the project planning. Neither of us is right; neither is wron...

Many of us have a hard time letting go of old ideas because we think that we are expected to hold onto them. Like out-of-date clothing that no longer fits, limiting beliefs and mistaken ideas should be tossed out without a second glance. Yet if you think that everyone else still holds that limiting ...

Like limiting beliefs, mistaken beliefs are ideas that are holding us back. The difference is that mistaken beliefs, in my book, are ideas that actually harm you. That make you feel less than, unworthy, or stuck. They are ideas that you accepted as true, but some part of you knows that they are fals...

Patterns of thought are ideas that we hold on repeat, or we allow to persist. When we take action on an idea, the idea seems to dissipate and leave us alone. When we don’t take action, there is often a contrary idea that is keeping us from moving forward. These contra ideas are what I call a limitin...

What could you accomplish if you believed you were loved? What would you do, each day, if you believed that that love was free? What actions would you take if you knew unconditional love was real?

These questions prompted me to design an experiment, of sorts, where I practiced these ideas until the...

Where your beliefs are serving you, keep them in place. There is no need to disturb a perfectly good idea that is helping you feel better about yourself, feel more optimistic about life, or have a more hopeful outlook. These beliefs are doing their job and supporting you in life. The ones you want t...