There is an ever-growing number of people who believe that a great change to the world will occur on December 21, 2012. Why this date?
As David Icke wryly observed:
The first mob to predict 2012 as the end of the world were the Mayans, a bloodthirsty race that were good at two things:
Building highly accurate astrological [...]

Here is a classical rags to riches story if I ever heard one. It’s also a story about a man who lost his confidence but persevered to win it back.
I became aware of this story today after a friend emailed me a video clip. It was of Paul Potts‘ performance of Puccini’s Nessun [...]

No matter what happens in life, good or bad, we still have a choice to be grateful or not, and with that choice, the possibility to transform life. I know that sometimes, when we are suffering, it can seem difficult to find anything to be thankful for. That’s because unconsciousness has taken over and we [...]

When Gregg Zehr was approached by Amazon.com to develop Kindle, he asked why he should be interested. The answer they gave him: “To change the world.”
Anyway, Kindle is now here. Whether it will change the world remains to be seen. But it does allow you to take 200 books with you (virtually) on your next [...]

My friend and fellow blogger, Jenny Mannion (healpain.blogspot.com) tagged me for the Reveal Your Dream Challenge. One of the rules stated to aim high. You will see that I have.
Since this post is in response to the Reveal Your Dream Challenge, I find it interesting that it was a literal dream that became my challenge [...]

I think it is wrong when a doctor gives to a patient a medical death sentence. You can call me an optimist, but I believe as Kirkegaard did that every man is an exception. And some of the exceptions pertain to outliving medical predictions.
Inayat Khan told this story:
I knew a person whom a [...]

“Every man I meet is in somehow my superior and in that I can learn from him.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the most beneficial skills to be developed in the pursuit of holistic personal development is whole brain thinking, or whole brain learning. The theory of whole brain thinking is concerned with how people’s brains [...]

I received the following information yesterday, via email, from the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service. I am reprinting it here as I think many people will find it helpful. — Gregory Allen Butler
Topical Vitamin C Stops Basal Cell Carcinoma

(OMNS Nov 9 2007) The most common form of skin cancer, basal cell carcinoma, often responds to [...]

Thinking differently about politics is my contribution to the Think Different Challenge. Politics used to take up a lot of my attention. In the past I would read something or hear something about a short-sighted politician and totally forget the purpose of my life. Instead of striving to be the best person I could be, [...]

Recently Sean Penn appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show. He was promoting his film Into the Wild. He made a provocative statement: He said that our society had become comfort addicted. That statement made a deep impression on me. I had not looked at comfort as an addiction before, but his statement reverberated within me [...]

Dale Carnegie wrote the classic personal development book, How to Win Friends and Influence People. Don’t have the book? No problem. Just take a look at the University of Kentucky’s brand new basketball coach, Billy Gillispie. Kentucky fans love him as if he has already won a title, before the season has even started. His [...]