I recently took my daughter Lia to a #HarlemGlobetrotters game. As we watched the game, I kept thinking about the players on the other team that travels with the Globetrotters. The #Globetrotters walk in every night ...
My wife Marti and our daughter Starr own InBliss yoga here in Kansas City. There are a lot of reasons that these two lights shine so bright but I think it’s because of their decision to ...
Did you know that just 100 years ago fully 90% of people NEVER brushed their teeth? Pepsodent was just like every other toothpaste but with a slight difference— your mouth would tingle. As your great grandparents ...
When I was a boy, we’d often visit my grandparents in the small town of Manning, South Carolina, where my grandfather owned a hardware store. One of my favorite people was an old man named Willy. ...
Everyone has a spark of creativity that, when set ablaze can illuminate the path for others. Artist Jenny Hahn is a person who has fanned the flames of her own creativity to touch the hearts and ...
A-always B-be C-compassionate. Compassion is an understanding that everyone you meet is experiencing a challenge and that taints how they show up. When you accept and understand that people all carry a heavy load you will ...
Compared to their American counterparts, children in Tanzania tend to be very well-behaved. The secret is that Tanzanian parents do the OPPOSITE of what most Americans parents do when a child misbehaves. Learn their secret. Enjoy ...
In Act II, Scene 2 of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Hamlet says to Rosencrantz, “For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” The other day, a friend of mine had to evict a ...
Happy people use their thoughts to reframe difficulties into challenges. They seek out what they can learn in difficult situations and how they can grow through them. Enjoy Today, Will
...Many times, we think that our lives are bad simply because we’re experiencing a handful of bad things. Make a commitment to count the bad things in your life and THEN count the good things. You’ll ...
Habits are the result of three things: Cues, Behavior and Rewards. You can make anything habitual by combining these 3. Enjoy Today, Will
...Think of your level of happiness being controlled by a thermostat-like controller. You are the one who sets the level. Here’s a way to make your happiness level automatically happier. Enjoy Today, Will
...Consider this formula: Good Deed x Anticipation = Happiness^2. What this means is that doing a good deed makes us happy AND anticipating something makes us happy, so combine the two: Make an absolute commitment to ...
Every morning, my mother would read the Bible to, as she said, “realign her compass.” Having routines and rituals that make you feel attuned with God and with others helps you make sure you’re on course. ...
Novelist Jacqueline Carey put it well, “It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others.” Therefore, one of the greatest motivators to becoming happier is so ...
Who was assigned to write the Declaration of Independence? If you said, “Thomas Jefferson,” you’d be wrong. Jefferson was part of a committee assigned the task but Jefferson took the lead and made it happen. Don’t ...
In his book “Thanks!: How Practicing Gratitude Can Make You Happier,” Dr. Robert Emmons of the University of California Davis cites research he conducted into the powerful effects of gratitude on happiness. A group of students ...
People confuse POSITIVE THINKING with positive expectation. The word positive means “that which is present.” Think about it— positive numbers count items that are present whereas negative numbers count what is missing. Therefore, positive thinking is ...
Did you hear about the man who wrote the Bible? That is, the man who sat down and wrote out the entire Bible copying it by hand. How long do you think it took him to ...
British Philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote, “Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness.” To feel that another person does not deserve happiness is a violation of spiritual law. Because we are all of one ...
Something that happens or something that is said to us does not take effect until we compound it with our reaction. Even what we consider “normal” reactions can limit our ability get along well with others. ...
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