The pace of personal growth is directly related to the ability to apply lessons learned in one area of living to as many others as fitting and as time permits. These are the "aha" moments or personal victories, the magical moments where an area of limitation is overcoming, where frustration gives way to satisfaction. I've …
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Simplest Terms
Even the most difficult problems can be overcome if you approach them in the right way. One of the many life lessons I've found to be extremely valuable is the fact that you can parlay success in one area of your life into other areas. The translation into application in a new area may not …
Human Memory
I've often said that vain regrets about the past are meaningless, and a recently concluded 10 year study soon to be released provides reason #37 as to why that is so. Jonah Lehrer noted in his Wall Street Journal article entitled: "When Memory Commits and Injustice" that: The biggest lie of human memory is that …
Try Something New
One of the several books I am presently dipping into is William Steinkraus' Reflections on Riding and Jumping. If you aren't an equestrian or are and haven't heard of this remarkable man, I would highly recommend that you take a moment to discover more about his love of music and horses. William Steinkraus is one …
The Iron Qualities
"We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done." - Theodore Roosevelt One of the crying needs in the world today is for men who know how to …
What every man seeks
"What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence, so long as he deems himself the center and object of effort. His mind is spent in vain upon itself. Not in action itself, not in "pleasure," shall it find its desires satisfied, but in the …
Creating Destiny
Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your habits, for they become your character. And watch your character, for it becomes your destiny. Thinking that you are a victim is enough to make you one, regardless of the straw you drew in life. You are not a …
A Prayer
A Prayer by St. Francis of Assisi Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. Where there is despair, may we bring hope. If you listen carefully to the prayers of most people, it is clear that they see …
The Garden of Life
The Garden of Life by Gregg Hake A new acquaintance: a germinated seed, A recent friend: a delicate shoot. A bitter enemy: a choking weed, A tight-knit family: a webbed root. A lifelong confidant: a perennial flower, A restored relationship: a spring shower.
The Touch of Life
A Day of Sunshine by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow O gift of God! O perfect day: Whereon shall no man work, but play; Whereon it is enough for me, Not to be doing, but to be! Through every fibre of my brain, Through every nerve, through every vein, I feel the electric thrill, the touch Of …
Gregory Hake 